I suppose it’s pointless to try to convince you that these are real people, not AI bots, so instead let me ask you an honest question: how do you distinguish between bots and real people, and what criteria must one meet to qualify for the latter category as far as your perception goes? There are, admittedly, a lot of scammers out there, but, nonetheless, not everyone is a scammer, and one wouldn’t want to operate on the assumption to the contrary, so this question warrants serious reflection.

I would hope that the more regularly people interact with AI slop, the more obvious it becomes to them that it’s, for lack of a better term, soulless - and soullessness is intuitively repugnant.