Do you ever get ticked off when you encounter an AI article?
By The Horse
@TheHorse (235917)
Walnut Creek, California
March 24, 2026 10:47am CST
I stumbled on an article this morning about the "best suburb to raise your kids." It turned out to be a suburb West of my native Chicago.
Only a paragraph or two in, I realized I was reading an AI article. The grammar was fine, but there was absolutely no "soul" to the piece. It was basically statistics converted to English via algorithms.
I got ticked off and decided to write this post. Can you sense my rage?
Do you get grumpy when you realize you're dealing with AI?
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@FourWalls (84275)
• United States
23h
I see these things all the time on Facebook, these supposed “feel-good” stories about how so-and-so celebrity A visited a dying so-and-so celebrity B and what they did…and it’s all AI bull stuffing, right down to the picture. But people keep eating it up, and it’s just cotton candy: no flavor, no meat, and it does nothing but rots your mental teeth.
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@toniganzon (75364)
• Philippines
13h
I would have been too. It's been a couple of weeks that I wonder if some members here are using AI to write a discussion. I wanted to start a discussion about it but just let it go.
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@toniganzon (75364)
• Philippines
2h
@TheHorse I have no idea. I just wonder if there are some users who do coz I really don't know.
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@TheHorse (235917)
• Walnut Creek, California
8m
@toniganzon When people write perfectly but "mechanically," I suspect AI..
@lovebuglena (50317)
• Staten Island, New York
23h
Sometimes when a post is too over the top I feel like it’s AI. And I’ve stumbled upon those on FB.
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@lovebuglena (50317)
• Staten Island, New York
18h
@TheHorse How come you don’t visit Facebook?
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@AliCanary (3898)
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22h
I'm not sure I could tell AI writing. I can always tell AI art, though, and I don't get angry about it, strangely (strange because I am an artist and this can literally push artists out of work, not to mention having been trained on existing artwork without credit or compensation).
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@AliCanary (3898)
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15h
@TheHorse lol, I guess you don't follow me? Most of my discussions feature my artwork.
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@RasmaSandra (95682)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
18h
It depends. AI has helped me with some paraphrasing and added some info I could not find but I always double or even triple check. I have never read an article completely done this way.
@Jehanne (436)
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23h
I did kind of getting annoyed to an AI earlier but it wasn't about an article. It was when I'm raising a concern and an AI keeps giving me an automated option which my concern keep being unanswered. Good thing when I ask for a real agent they redirected me to one.
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