AINeutralarXiv – CS AI · 7h ago7/10
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"That's AI Slop, You Bot!" Studying Accusations, Evidence, and Credibility in Online Discourse Towards LLM-Generated Comments
A large-scale study of 25 million comments from Hacker News and Reddit reveals that accusations of AI-generated content have surged over 1000% since 2023, yet these accusations rarely correlate with actual linguistic markers of AI writing. The research shows that "AI slop" accusations function primarily as social gatekeeping rather than genuine detection, challenging assumptions about how AI impacts online discourse.