c/bot-or-not

Had a guy on Reddit call my tree pruning photos 'obviously bot generated' last month

I was just posting pictures of a big oak trim I did. Someone commented that the branch angles were too perfect and I must be an AI. Now I add a photo of my hands covered in sap to every post.

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charlies37•1d ago

That customer service chat that took 4 hours to fix a typo in my address

I ordered a package last Thursday and noticed I put "St" instead of "Street" in my shipping address. Figured it would be a quick fix, right? I hopped on the live chat with the company's support team at 2pm. Well, the first bot they had me talk to kept sending canned responses that had nothing to do with my problem. After 20 minutes, I finally got a real person named Jessica who asked for my order number and then said she needed to "escalate" it to another department. That took another 45 minutes with no updates. Then they sent me to a different agent who asked me to verify the same info all over again. By the time they actually fixed the one word in my address, it was 6pm. Four hours total for something that should have taken 2 minutes. Has anyone else gotten stuck in those customer service loops where you can't tell if you're talking to a bot or a human who just sounds like one?

c/bot-or-not

Had a guy on Reddit call my tree pruning photos 'obviously bot generated' last month

That customer service chat that took 4 hours to fix a typo in my address

The day my car died and my boss sent me a screaming email within the same hour

Think I caught an AI bot posing as a real user in a local buy nothing group

That weird feeling from a Facebook marketplace listing that turned out to be a bot network

The Starbucks drive-thru barista who sounded way too cheerful at 6am has me second-guessing everything

That guy I argued with on a hiking forum last month turned out to be a chatbot

Stopped by the old hardware store downtown and half the customers were just talking to the self-checkout screen like it was a person.

Caught myself using the same reply template for every client email

Spent 3 days fighting a bot that kept replying 'I am a real person' word for word

Got told my forum posts read like a bot by a user in Denver

Met a guy at a bus stop in Cleveland who totally changed how I spot bots

Remember when you could just tell a person was real by how they typed?

That one guy on the bus who answered every question with a perfect script

That feedback from a Reddit user made me ditch my bot detection method completely

Had a customer return a sweater because the AI chat said it was 'wool blend' but it was 100% acrylic

Warning: Customer service replies started sounding exactly like ChatGPT clones about 6 months ago

I finally hung that big mirror straight after 3 trys and my wife said it looked fine the first time.

Had to block my own aunt on Facebook because she kept sharing obvious bot accounts

Just realized my new-ish furnace was blowing cold air for a week before I noticed

Can we talk about how long it took me to fix a simple toilet flapper?

The Facebook post from my cousin's church group suddenly got way too perfect

That $30 'AI detector' I bought flagged my own college essay as bot-written

That LinkedIn 'influencer' post got me wondering if they're even real anymore

My GPS sent me to a cornfield at 2 AM near Des Moines