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‘The Worst Internet-Research Ethics Violation I Have Ever Seen’ | The most persuasive “people” on a popular subreddit turned out to be a front for a secret AI experiment. (www.theatlantic.com)
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

It depends, but it'd be really hard to tell. I type around 90-100 WPM, so my comment only took me a few minutes.

If they're responding within a second or two with a giant wall of text it could be a bot, but it may just be a person who's staring at the notification screen waiting to reply. It's hard to say.