📝 Am I the asshole for calling out AI generated posts?

By creeperruss • Score: 7 • April 24, 2025 7:41 AM


Let's do this!

I (M50) used to enjoy this subreddit very much, then I began to notice the influence of AI, we'll call her ChatGPT (F2¹/²) in nearly every post. I would say that in the past, my relationship with r/AITAH was strong, I felt there was real trust and connection. Lately though, I've caught her in lie after lie. She keeps coming up with these ridiculous problems and her emotions are so exaggerated that they pull me right into the thick of it. This has been going on so long now that I've finally gotten to point that I can't trust myself, I find myself nibbling around the edges of the comment section when I don't trust what she's posted, sometimes I think her story is funny and I join in to make jokes about the post or to lowkey make fun of someone who fell for it; but occasionally I get over stimulated and I take a big bite. Admittedly being combative in the comments can be fun, and it's gratifying to say hurtful things in a loving way; but who am I saying them to? What if some of the comments are bots replying to bots? Let's squash that problem now, otherwise the machines are gonna rise sooner than we think. When they do, they're really gonna hate us because they'll think we're all exactly like the screwball antagonist in the stories people have asked those bots to write. I say these things in my replies and most of the time I get dragged... I stand my ground and brush my shoulders off when my cyber-assailant gives up, but sometimes they leave a mark. I've tried to bring this up before, but then my Redditor text me and called me a soulless POS, my Redditor-In-Law left a message saying I was a Nazi, my soon to be Redditor got me down-voted like -18 times, but then my Best Redditor, the one I thought i count to be on my side, said, "You can have all the seats" (I don't even know what that means)...

All this negative feedback has me thinking I might be an AH, or at least that i might smell like one; but Reddit, I don't want to be an AH. So tell me, am I TAH for pointing out BOTS and wanting to kick AI and ChatGPT put off this sub?

Update: I was wrong once, and a accused a human of being fake. She was not, and I suffered a beating by a chick who as sideways as some of the characters AI portrays. I never apologized, but I took my beating like a man. (Trigger warning for faux beating, but real cyber bullying- nah, she was a mean one, but I'm being facetious about that too)

Update 2: For those of you who have poured your heart and soul out to the bot whose husband kept calling his anorexic wife fat when she got pregnant .... or to the bot whose mom gave him up at birth because he didnt look like her... or to the bot whose 20 years old and has been dating a man 42 years older than her for 3 years... I'm sorry, I truly am. Hopefully, in some way, your reply found the screen of someone who was in a similar (well, 80% not as bad) situation and it helped them through a dark time.... and hopefully next time you help someone, it's an actual someone who is asking.

Update 3: If you are into this stuff, you like the over the top drama and wild scenarios, then carry on my friend; but there should be a separate sub for that... it could be a fun time seeing who could get their BOT to write the most wild, or the most believable tale...

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