Android

AI struggles with adjectives, I suspect because it's trained on the internet where people struggle with adjectives and just use an adjective they think sounds intelligent when they really just want it to mean good or bad. Like how everything nowadays is some therapy word that doesn't always fit the context, like this app is performative, it gas lights me. Using forward in particular is common in online spaces that describe food or taste in general. Like a beat forward salad. The pilates class is music forward. I could see how an AI would use it inconsistently because people often use it inconsistantly and sometimes use it wrong.

Or, hear me out, it could be one of the most shady companies in world (google), that has both control over infra and motive to do it.

Yeah, and a lot of the screenshotted comments don't even read like bots, they read like someone in a developing country that doesn't speak english as a primary language.

I just disabled it. We'll see if they can remotely enable it again or not.

You could uninstall it if you have it currently, then install a dummy apk with the same id that is signed using your own keys. That should stop google services from installing the real verification app.
That's how I've seen past apps be disabled that google kept silently installing.

https://github.com/daboynb/developer-verifier-placeholder/releases
This looks like such a dummy, from a dev who seems to have the main dummy for safetycore too. You can install this and it should be fine.

In the future if your phone has it preinstalled as a system app, you're probabl, sol and have to root to remove and replace it.

if your usage doesn't depend on them, i recommend removing all google apps (and vendor bloats) with universal android debloater (uses adb)

A slightly more rational theory is that one (or a few) of those "pay-per-review" networks is using it as a demo of their services.

"Look what we can do to a deeply unpopular app, for $XXX we can do the same for you"

They should unionize and negotiate that they can't get fired over rejecting to do clearly unethical work.

Because right now their options are:

a) Comply with unethical work

b) Reject to do it and get fired and thrown into a job economy where its going to take months if not a year or more to find a job.

seems like they've blocked that for me now too