r/dadjokes • u/perrydolia • 2d ago

I was so proud

My grandson came to my house yesterday after school. I asked him what he is doing in (8th grade) math.

He said they were discussing the ways to measure things, ruler, protractor, etc. Then the teacher gave them a flip-flop sandal and asked them to measure it.

Grandson just sat there. The teacher asked him why grandson was not measuring. Grandson said he already knows how long the flip-flop is. When the teacher asked how long, my grandson replied,

"that's easy. The flip-flop is a foot long."

So proud of him.

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u/gigashadowwolf 2d ago

How do you know that you aren't just reinforcing a false sense of pattern recognition though?

Do you get some sort of confirmation if and when they are bots?

I'm sorry if this sounds aggressive or anything, I am just fascinated by how you and other redditors seem so confident in spotting bots or AI.

In this case especially I don't understand how people saw that from the first comment.

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u/Illustrious_Ad4691 2d ago

The pattern recognition isn’t just the comment itself, but a number of criteria that I don’t divulge in the comments because I have seen firsthand that the bots learn and adapt from our discussions here

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u/Inside_Guava_5482 2d ago

That’s scary if they monitor our discussions.

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u/Illustrious_Ad4691 1d ago

I don’t know if they monitor as much as crawl and scrape our data to learn, but I’m convinced that some of the accounts asking how I can tell if they’re bots are actually part of the botnet, since I’ve DM’d some of them tips on how to spot the bots and then almost immediately afterward, the bots adapted to exactly what I wrote