Bots have made it hard to tell whether social media posts are written by humans, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said.
He made the comment while reading posts on the r/ClaudeCode subreddit, where users were praising OpenAI’s Codex.
The subreddit has been full of posts from users revealing they switched to Codex.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has shared his observation on X (formerly Twitter): Bots have made it hard to tell whether social media posts are written by humans. He made the comment while reading posts on the r/ClaudeCode subreddit, where users were praising OpenAI’s Codex, a programming service launched in May to compete with Anthropic’s Claude Code.
SurveyThe subreddit has been full of posts from users revealing they switched to Codex. This left Altman questioning how many posts were actually written by real people. “I have had the strangest experience reading this: I assume its all fake/bots, even though in this case I know codex growth is really strong and the trend here is real,” Altman wrote in his X post.
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Altman went on to express why posts might feel fake. “I think there are a bunch of things going on: real people have picked up quirks of LLM-speak, the Extremely Online crowd drifts together in very correlated ways, the hype cycle has a very ‘it’s so over/we’re so back’ extremism, optimization pressure from social platforms on juicing engagement and the related way that creator monetization works, other companies have astroturfed us so i’m extra sensitive to it, and a bunch more (including probably some bots).” In simpler terms, Altman is pointing out that humans are starting to sound like AI.
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In his post, Altman summarised, “But the net effect is somehow AI twitter/AI reddit feels very fake in a way it really didnt a year or two ago.
Reddit communities around OpenAI have shown mixed reactions in the past. After GPT 5.0 launched, some users criticised the update instead of praising it. Well, bots are now a major part of the internet. Imperva reported that over half of all online traffic in 2024 came from non-humans, mostly AI. X’s bot Grok also estimates hundreds of millions of bots on the platform.
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