OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has sparked renewed discussion on the authenticity of online content, saying, “I assume it’s all fake\/bots, even though in this case I know Codex growth is really strong and the trend here is real.”<\/p>\n
His candid observation highlights growing concerns over the prevalence of AI-generated posts <\/a>across social media platforms and the challenges users face in distinguishing human activity from automated content.<\/p>\n OpenAI CEO questions online authenticity<\/p>\n In a post on X on 8 September 2025, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman shared:<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cI 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, optimisation pressure from social platforms on juicing engagement and the related way that creator monetisation works, and a bunch more (including probably some bots). But the net effect is somehow AI Twitter\/AI Reddit feels very fake in a way it really didn’t a year or two ago.\u201d<\/p>\n Humans adopting LLM-speak<\/p>\n A key insight from Altman\u2019s statement appears to be that humans themselves are increasingly adopting \u201cLLM-speak\u201d, consciously or subconsciously mimicking AI-generated language patterns<\/a>.<\/p>\n This linguistic shift, combined with social media hype cycles and platform optimisation pressures, contributes to the perception that AI-focused spaces like Twitter and Reddit feel unusually \u201cfake\u201d compared to a year or two ago.<\/p>\n Sam Altman also referenced Codex, OpenAI\u2019s AI system, for assisting with coding, acknowledging its genuine growth despite the online environment feeling artificial.<\/p>\n Netizens reacted to the OpenAI CEO’s post with a mix of agreement and concern.<\/p>\n Many X users recognise that blending human and AI-like language further blurs the lines between authentic and artificial engagement, posing challenges for users, platforms, and regulators alike.<\/p>\n \u201c’Real people have picked up quirks of LLM-speak’, if by this you mean that we begin sounding like the AI companion we are speaking with, then yes, very likely to happen,\u201d replied an X user on Altman’s post.<\/p>\n Another said, \u201cEven the bots feel eerily human now. It\u2019s wild how quickly \u2018llm-speak\u2019 is leaking into real convos\u2014almost like everyone\u2019s slowly becoming an AI echo. Codex might just be the new native language.\u201d <\/p>\n Sam <\/a>Altman\u2019s reflections<\/a> shed light on a growing issue in the digital world: AI is not only generating content but also reshaping human communication patterns online.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has sparked renewed discussion on the authenticity of online content, saying, “I assume it’s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":52536,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[261],"tags":[291,38526,38520,38523,25282,289,290,38525,38518,38516,38527,38521,18,38515,38519,38514,19,17,38517,38513,38528,38524,307,3408,308,1114,38522,29196,21449,82,2772],"class_list":{"0":"post-52535","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-ai-discussion","10":"tag-ai-influence","11":"tag-ai-language-patterns","12":"tag-ai-generated-content","13":"tag-artificial-intelligence","14":"tag-artificialintelligence","15":"tag-automated-content","16":"tag-codex","17":"tag-codex-growth","18":"tag-digital-culture","19":"tag-digital-trends","20":"tag-eire","21":"tag-human-activity","22":"tag-human-communication","23":"tag-human-communication-patterns","24":"tag-ie","25":"tag-ireland","26":"tag-llm-speak","27":"tag-online-authenticity","28":"tag-online-behavior","29":"tag-online-engagement","30":"tag-openai","31":"tag-reddit","32":"tag-sam-altman","33":"tag-social-media","34":"tag-social-media-hype","35":"tag-social-media-platforms","36":"tag-tech-news","37":"tag-technology","38":"tag-twitter"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52535\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}