I was going to be more diplomatic and reserved on this, but the further I looked the more obvious it became that this is AI.
You only need to look at Jack’s post history to discover that this extensive academic language is entirely out of character for them. By their own words, they’re a native Spanish speaker that finds it overwhelming to read everything in English. Their writing was perfectly understandable, but still “off” enough to know that they weren’t a native speaker. This was a little over 2 months ago: A game...how?
To go from that, to this level of sophisticated academic language in just 2 months? I’m not buying that. Plus the fact it’s complete with the usual AI tells of excessive em dashes, meandering sentences and irrelevant talking points. Then you just look at some of Jack’s shorter comments in this thread and see that they read completely differently.
Then there’s all of the references. Haphazardly thrown in wherever it looks like they’re making a point to make their arguments seem more serious. Except the vast majority of them aren’t referenced properly (after forcing my eyes to not glaze over, this sort of writing would never be accepted in any form of serious academical study), and the papers they reference are completely irrelevant to the topic at hand. I’m not talking about the fact we’re on a fetish forum, these papers have no bearing on AI whatsoever.
Let’s take the first one I saw, a 2014 paper by “Bookchin, M.”. This man is actually Murray Bookchin, who died in 2006, and therefore obviously could not have written that paper. So where did this reference come from? In the top post Jack was kind enough to include a reference list, where we see:
Searching this we find this paper, a social ecology piece written in 1965, uploaded to that website in 2014. Clearly, the AI has simply scanned through a massive database of academic papers, seen that this had the word “technology” in the title, and hallucinated quotes out of it to write Jack’s drivel.
Searching other references brings similar results, with “Bakunin (2013)” likely being Mikhail Bakunin, who died in 1876, and who had a book added to Amazon in 2013. Ironic, given he was a revolutionary anarchist.
I didn’t expect to be spending the early hours of the morning debunking the validity of a fetish forum post, but such are the wonders of the internet. Ironically, Jack seemed to hold AI in high regard in that same post just 2 months ago, claiming game engines other than RPGMaker were too complex for even ChatGPT to handle. It does make me wonder why they decided to go on this anti-AI crusade in the first place, and especially while using AI to do so.
Oh right, of course, this is the internet. It’s ragebait. And we’ve all lost.