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That viral Reddit post about food delivery apps was an AI scam

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Re: That viral Reddit post about food delivery apps was an AI scam

#5

There's no definitive proof that the original post was AI, and it sounds very much in line with DoorDash and Uber's ethics (or lack thereof), so I'm still inclined to give the benefit of the doubt to the original post.

> it sounds very much in line with DoorDash and Uber's ethics (or lack thereof)

That is quite literally why misinformation spreads.

Re: That viral Reddit post about food delivery apps was an AI scam

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  > The Verge put the original 586-word Reddit post through several free online AI detectors, in addition to Gemini, ChatGPT, and Claude. The results were mixed: Copyleaks, GPTZero, Pangram, Gemini, and Claude all pegged it as likely AI-generated, but ZeroGPT and QuillBot both reported it as human-written. ChatGPT played it down the middle.
Why does anyone, let alone a journalist, trust these? They are worse than useless.

Re: That viral Reddit post about food delivery apps was an AI scam

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It’s funny that the Verge thinks this is the AI scam, when literally all of Reddit is a massive AI scam and you can’t miss it if you scroll the front page for more than 10 minutes and realize the comments/upvotes/content don’t track and aren’t even remotely organic.

Re: That viral Reddit post about food delivery apps was an AI scam

#9

There's no definitive proof that the original post was AI, and it sounds very much in line with DoorDash and Uber's ethics (or lack thereof), so I'm still inclined to give the benefit of the doubt to the original post.

> it sounds very much in line with DoorDash and Uber's ethics (or lack thereof) That is quite literally why misinformation spreads.

> sounds very much in line with

perfect description of what LLMs are best at

Re: That viral Reddit post about food delivery apps was an AI scam

#10

There's no definitive proof that the original post was AI, and it sounds very much in line with DoorDash and Uber's ethics (or lack thereof), so I'm still inclined to give the benefit of the doubt to the original post.

Sorry, if you give the “benefit of the doubt” to anything on Reddit you are going to be misinformed. Reddit was all lies before AI; it hasn’t gotten better.
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