My buddy's dating profile replies went from 6 real women a month to zero, and I finally figured out why
He was on the apps for about 8 months. Getting steady replies. Real ones. Then around March something shifted. I looked at his messages with him one night in my kitchen in Tucson and it clicked. The replies he was getting had the same rhythm. Short, warm, asked one tiny thing back. Always within 4 minutes. No typos, no slang, no weird punctuation. I scrolled up to January and his old replies were full of half sentences, dropped letters, 'lol' in weird spots, the normal mess of a real person. That contrast is the tell. A person's texting style does not just snap into perfect form. So my take, and I know this is not the popular one here, is that AI replies are not getting harder to spot. They are getting easier, since the bots got better at sounding nice but nobody taught them to sound sloppy. What is your go to giveaway when someone's messages are a little too clean?