Anytime I see a gigantic paragraph of bullshit I know it's AI.

I know "gigantic" is relative, but the user in question always had a paragraph of roughly 3-4 sentences, each of which only had up to 1 dependent/independent clause. So the paragraphs were actually short, we're not talking walls o' text. But that also means the user was never communicating complex ideas or nuance. If for whatever reason I didn't want to outright label them an AI bot, I would still feel comfortable labeling them a low-effort quipper or engagement baiter.

i just block botspammers as soon as I see em, usually reporting but also usually without posting my suspicion of botspam. if my behavior is common, then many people who notice it just block and move on, too. others will refuse to see it when pointed out, insistently pointing out an individual phrase or line that seems unlikely for an ai to produce, which... well.

at least for my part, the vigilance is not lacking, its just that my vigilance doesn't federate. i suppose i'll be more careful about making sure to leave suspicion comments instead of just reports.

alexa, quote that post where it says frankenstein was 90% ai written and the a user saying they hope the writer addresses this grave accusation

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pot, kettle.

Check my comment history and you'll see that I'm a big fan of em dashes (typically to prevent run-on sentences, clarify a point, or where someone else might use parentheses, like this) but very anti-AI.

I've never generated anything in any of my messages with AI and I have no intention of changing that.

The point was on the complaining about AI because of trends in how humans write (which is where AI got it from in the first place) when quite visibly using those same trends, but sure, why not.

1. They do not all write the same. There's benchmarks for this and if you just do a basic search or actually test them yourself you'll see that their output differs wildly. Not only between vendors, but been versions of the same model. For example, Claude stopped using em dashes for most output for a while but now they've come back.
2. There's vastly more than "a handful of models"! Are you living under a rock‽ Go to HuggingFace today and then again tomorrow. There's going to be a dozen new ones! Probably more!
3. Changing the back end configuration even a tiny bit can vastly change the output of a model.

only talks about AI related news, doesn’t have any other hobbies.

False. They talk about Xbox too in your own screenshots.

They do not all write the same

They all have the same hallmarks.

There's vastly more than "a handful of models"! Are you living under a rock‽

You're intentionally misrepresenting my statement. It wasn't about the models that exist, it was about the models people are using.

the em dash is just one tick. eicker has at least five of those to the point where it's embedded into the logical flow of the argument and the sentence structure

and for that matter, looking into it, Pangram seems to have an extremely low false-positive rate these days: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/05/pangram-ai-detection-accuracy/687381/ . the only complaints seem to be about its false negative rate. the FP rate of 1 in 10,000 is maybe higher than you want but whatever of Eicker's text you throw at it it always comes up positive.

also, can we talk about how Eicker's website literally advertizes LLM adbotting services? see third screenshot in body

eicker links several websites in his bio, such as this one:

it scares me that 90% of Fediverse users do not recognize his obviously LLM writing.

I'm not misrepresenting anything. If you take any model and just change the temperature a little bit (it's a setting that controls the influence of the RNG) you can have wildly different output.

Different AI providers using the exact same model will have outputs so different using the same exact prompts you'd think they were in different universes.

They absolutely do not "have the same hallmarks."

This stuff is benchmarked to absurd degrees every time a new model comes out. Just look it up already! You're so obviously arguing from an ignorant position it's silly.

I often think about that exact, particular, specific comic lately... for some reason!

That said, OP said elsewhere:

The third screenshot is me asking if it was written by AI and not receiving a reply. The user pretty much does not reply to people, just obviously-LLM summaries to his own posts. Almost all such comments are the same amount of lines.

So if the account in question mimics a human exclusively in order to spread spam about particular websites that they are paid to promote as "authentically"-looking as possible, then I would argue that the mission is not "fucking accomplished". Or rather, at least not our mission of being able to converse with fellow humans, possibly with the assistance of the occasional bot so long as they are properly labeled as such and not trying to manipulate and scam us.

A properly labeled bot - e.g. that posts daily comics - is a great tool (even if some people choose to opt-out of such, which is their right). It's the deception that people do not like (mainly).

So very many of us around the Threadiverse have been preemptively banned from communities located on dbzer0 that barely exist - e.g. no posts or even subscribers other than the creator at the time - and called slurs (like "troll") in the modlog by pro-AI account holders who iirc are also admins of that instance (or were at the time).

So yes, dbzer0 is unquestionably the single most rabidly pro-AI instance we have, and I would even go so far as to say vehemently anti-anti-AI. If half the Threadiverse defederates from dbzer0, that will be the main reason why - especially since there is currently no other defense against modlog spam.

Although at this point dbzer0 seems more likely to itself initiate defederation from the rest of the Threadiverse, or at least Lemmy.World where sth like 90% of the most active communities are located, for following the laws of the nations the server machines are located in, and not allowing literal death threats levied against the LW admin team.

Oh, and also dbzer0 is pro-tankie now. Look up the Flotilla if you want more info. I know, shocking right? It used to be one of the more respected instances across the Threadiverse, but now... it's one step removed from the tankie triad in terms of antagonistic behaviors against everyone else. Now you are caught up on all the drama.

Probably not 90%? This post seems to be receiving an unusually high amount of push-back, less than a day after its posting, which honestly we all probably should have predicted would happen to any such post - at the very least all of eicker's alts are going to be on the warpath against it?

Maybe people are downvoting bc it's so much detail but only about a single account, I dunno.

The next release of PyLova will offer subscribable blocklists - PieFed already offers user-customizable and shareable Topic Area Feeds, so this is a logical next step!

Lemmy seems unlikely to add new features except on the timescale of decades though, so anyone wanting this would have to switch to a new instance, or get your admins to switch over.

I don't need to look up anything. It's been shoved in my face for the last 5 years. You are so obviously arguing about nuances that don't matter in reality and it's ignorant and silly! Things like em-dashes, bullet points, and gargling the user's balls are all signs that everyone who's paying attention can quickly and easily recognize at this point.