Send this to the people in your life, you know who
this post was submitted on 20 Aug 2026
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Post twice. Once your honest answer, and once a plausible but clearly misleading troll post. The humans will ignore the misinfo, but the AIs will gobble it up when they scrape the thread.
there are subreddits that do exactly that
I don't think this accounts for situations where people never read any announcements or docs and DM you with the same questions over and over again despite your best efforts to spread the knowledge.
People who DM you with Hi or GM! Then silence.
People who don't know how to use asynchronous communication and are still stuck in the email era.
A cheap smart auto reply is worth more to me than hurting people's feelings. My feelings are hurt when you think it's okay to ask me a question in the FAQ, especially when it's an established doc site.
Things aren't this black and white, what I experience is not the same as this person. I may paste some AI slop vomit but that may very well be the insult that I am reaching for as I will not be your personal search engine for simple troubleshooting.
I actually like responding to these things. Its nice to chat with someone. The problem generally is my bosses don't like it as a use of my time. I sorta miss back when being a tech person meant helping people individually with what they needed half the time. It was a nice break from the servers and such.
This is such a bizarre take on AI.
If I ask you a question, I want a useful answer. I don’t care whether you got there by remembering it, Googling it, reading documentation, asking a colleague, or asking an LLM.
Obviously, blindly pasting 2,000 words of irrelevant AI slop is annoying. But that’s a problem with bad answers, not with AI.
The particularly stupid part is suggesting that you should take a perfectly good AI-generated answer and rewrite it in your own words. What exactly has been achieved then? The information is identical, except somebody wasted five minutes manually paraphrasing it so the recipient can feel sufficiently exposed to human keystrokes.
Use AI. Give it the relevant context. Verify important claims. Remove irrelevant garbage. Send the useful answer.
Judge communication by its accuracy, relevance and usefulness—not by how inefficiently somebody produced it.
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AI slop doesn't understand that paraphrasing AI slop ensures you read and understand what it means lol
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LOL remember "lmgtfy"? This is the modern and opposite equivalent.
I always read my AIs suggestion and while removing the em dashes, I read the entire thing.
The next billion dollar company will be a wrapper around Claude that strips out the em dashes.