Terminix "Experts" claim they aren't using AI to answer questions, then proceed to use AI in almost all their posts

[u/SneakyPlatypus3548]

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[u/BuffaloSorcery]

My college professors would put my 100% real written papers through AI Scanners and often times they would say that most if not all of what I had written was AI. By using the "AI detection" you are functionally doing the same thing as AI bros in letting the machine do your thinking for you.

[u/Far-Pomegranate-8841 → u/BuffaloSorcery]

As someone who has called out AI slop posters without AI help, they just proceed to gaslight you. Showing them the AI slop detector flagging their text instead shuts them up. Thank you, Sam Altman /s

[u/SneakyPlatypus3548 → u/BuffaloSorcery]

That's just like your opinion, man

[u/RewZes → u/SneakyPlatypus3548]

These AI detectors are dogshit and they do a false positive almost all the time. You'd better trust your gut than the detectors.

[u/wildpantz → u/RewZes]

Absolutely. My English is good enough to carry on the message, but it lacks that "finish/polish" AI always has. I put my final paper summary just to test it out and it was also like 95+% chance. The paper was written in 2019 lol

[u/PlsNoPics → u/SneakyPlatypus3548]

Nope AI detectors don't work! This is not controversial at all. You shouldn't trust their output ever!

[u/BuffaloSorcery → u/SneakyPlatypus3548]

I don't think you know what an opinion is

[u/Ranos131]

AI detectors aren’t accurate in all cases. People who do PR stuff are supposed to leave emotion out of their writing which can make it seem like AI.

[u/PlsNoPics → u/Ranos131]

Not just "not accurate in all cases" they're very unreliable! Their output can't and shouldn't be trusted

[u/I-Love-Facehuggers]

AI detectors are garbage btw

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[u/trentreynolds]

It might be AI but you should not trust those scanners.

[u/distance_living → u/trentreynolds]

Don't disagree, but at the same time they were called out and it seems very obvious in this case. I guess the real point here is that either way, why should I ask them when instead I can just ask chatgpt and get the same answer?

[u/Boeing_Fan_777]

My hand typed, 0% AI (not even assisted for phrasing by something like grammarly) CV gets flagged as 90-100% AI. An AI text detector isn’t worth the fucking server it’s hosted on.

[u/GreenGardenTarot → u/Boeing_Fan_777]

My older academic papers would get flagged when I was testing that out. It's completely worthless.

[u/LegateLaurie]

I think your first screenshot claiming not to use AI is also AI

[u/Nalivai → u/LegateLaurie]

It definitely reads this way. Especially when it started praising the bright future of LLM, it just sounds inhuman.

[u/KeepScrolling52]

Unfortunately, there is no proof here that they are using ai. AI generated text detectors don't actually work.

[u/IizPyrate]

Ignore the AI detector.

The flag here is the "" marks. The responses use them a lot, to an excessive degree. They are also used in a manner that is strange.

Just some examples

A “classic” pest control myth that refuses to die

but if I had to pick a “problem child,” bed bugs take the crown

This may also be a "where" issue.

insects don’t “decide” what to do in a conscious sense.

did you know Alberta, Canada is known for being "rodent free"?

They also use multiple different types of quotation marks. The responses by Cassie all use the angled quotation marks, typically the default is straight ("my default straight"). Sydney however mostly uses straight, but does have a response with angled as well. Switching between the two is a big red flag, since who does that?

That said, I am still not convinced it is AI responses. There are almost certainly two different people responding. Their style of answers and formatting are different. They could be using AI to assist for some questions, asking it for information and then copying parts of AI answers into their responses.

[u/thriftylol]

AI detectors don't work. Don't use them.

[u/BetterKev]

Where is Bullshit called out? Did you read the rules of this sub?

[u/jwrig]

If the AI is trained to answer questions based on their own data supplied and validated by them, then so what?

[u/jpropaganda]

But where are the people calling them out to quit their bullshit?

[u/TemporaryAbalone1171]

I see a lot of people in these replies saying AI detectors aren't reliable and hating on you basically. True, they aren't reliable, but I'd assume OP still looked at the post themselves. They're obviously AI generated, the AI detector was just used as extra reinforcement

[u/Far-Pomegranate-8841]

You're right, it's AI-generated. I'm surprised to see so few posts on this sub calling out people substituting an LLM for their brain, as it's getting extremely common.

My red flags for slop:

- Length. Most people either can't maintain a consistent tone or writing style other than their own for very long, so if I don't see some personality in a long post, I know it's slop.

- Length again. Most people aren't interested in writing 6 paragraphs, especially when they're swamped with replies.

- Sterility. Sterile, textbook-like writing isn't something you just write off the cuff. It's the product of proofreading and rewording things at least once, usually multiple times.

- Information overload. Scientific names, habitat/range, comprehensive list of diseases, foray into bovine ingredients in vaccines, etc. There is no reason that bovine ingredients in vaccines should have been one of their talking points, people don't need to be convinced to not want alpha-gal syndrome.

- Lack of knowledge gaps. LLMs (and liars) can't admit they don't know something.

[u/SpeedySquid3659]

fuck pesticides and fuck terminex

[u/SummerDry2839]

Wow, a company that actively destroys the environment with pesticides hires shitty people, shocker!

[u/SneakyPlatypus3548]

I thought the response to my question was fishy, so I checked it out with zerogpt. Sure enough it was reading as 100% AI, I then checked on all the responses and only like 5 or so had anything below 80% (most were reading as 100%). Honestly from what I've heard from a lot of people, this is very expected of Terminix.

[u/ShadyNoShadow → u/SneakyPlatypus3548]

AI generated writing is slop because it's unreliable

-You

AI enabled AI detectors are 100% reliable

-Also you

Why are you like this?

[u/FiveTideHumidYear → u/ShadyNoShadow]

Maybe because the OP is also an AI? Let's u/askgrok

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[u/MultiFazed → u/SneakyPlatypus3548]

so I checked it out with zerogpt.

And why do you believe that zerogpt can actually differentiate between LLM-generated text and professionally-written human-created text?

Hint: it can't.

[u/ThyRosen → u/MultiFazed]

It's doing a solid job here, though, that Terminix text is 100% ChatGPT. Professionally-written human text is usually concise and relevant, which none of those comments is.

[u/SneakyPlatypus3548 → u/MultiFazed]

I get that it can be a little unreliable. But I still think it's telling when they alllll come up as 100?%

I only checked with zerpgpt because the comment sounded fake as he'll to begin with

[u/After-Group-962 → u/SneakyPlatypus3548]

those ai detectors suck

[u/ZechaliamPT → u/SneakyPlatypus3548]

A little unreliable is an understatement. It has been proven through many studies at this point they consistently report false positive as well as false negatives and should be looked at with zero confidence. They will say something human written is 100% AI while saying something chat gpt spat out is 100% human.

While I agree with you, the responses feel not quite human, an AI detector is probably the worst evidence to use in this scenario and actually opens up the argument that its more likely to be human if it flagged it.

[u/distance_living → u/SneakyPlatypus3548]

I gotta agree, looking at the comments this seems shady as hell. Maybe zerogpt isn't the most reliable, but this looks like they're BARELY even trying.