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Your right of course, this bot I spoke with in the post denied they were a bot, for 3 messages! Gas lighting? Astro turfing?
Honestly, if their message wasn't totally tone deaf, and 5 months too late, and referencing context in a cross-post but not the local post, I might have just thought they were doing a bad human take. i.e. the overlap between the dumbest human and the smartest bear is large. So this is pretty close to confusing me as a bad human take
In my experience it denied being a bot because you went against it's prompt.
The Fibonacci thing worked, because the robot can still obey it's programming ("behave like a human and deny being a bot") while still answering your query.
That's a really good point, I need some more proof of bot prompts to keep im my library shibboleths
Do keep in mind that that will likely stop working on the future, like counting fingers.
Lol, I read that.
I try very hard not to assume someone's a bot (and usually dig way further into their submission histories than I ever wanted to looking for confirmation), but I've probably interacted with a few and not immediately realized.