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@snipsnapsnur wrote:

I think that was her name - SandySparkles?  Where is she?  She always posted such happy and upbeat posts and comments?


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@Sooner   I just re-read her (SandySparkles) post from 11/2/24 which she titled, Stugggling to Keep Up.  In her post, she clearly indicates she's had a diagnosis which is affecting her mental clarity and memory and that she's also taking medication that might also be hindering, what she describes as her decline.  

 

I'm sorry, but your assumption that her responses are AI generated because of the way she's trying to express herself are formatted and unnatural?  I don't believe that for one second!  That post was heartbreaking, natural and very real.    

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Her last post was Mother Day. She started a post  about not all Mothers days are happy for everyone.  She might be needing to take off a bit she mentioned before the Mothers Day post. . She is a real person. Very positive and upbeat. Always try's to look at the best. Certainly  nice on the forums. 

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I thought she was sweet. I enjoyed her uplifting posts. A nice change from complaints. She did mention she was having some challenges. I also remember Cheriere, who hasn't posted in ages. I wonder to myself why they leave. 

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@Kachina624 wrote:

@Sooner. On this forum it seems you're damned if you're sweet, kind, and positive and damned if you're the opposite.

Yes, Sandy was a little over the top but that's the way some people are.  I never doubted her sincerity.   I doubt this board is of such importance to warrant generating reesponses.  I, for one, wouldn't even know how to do an AI response.


@Kachina624 It isn't the content.  It is the formatting, the way the language is used, the unnatural makeup of the whole content.

 

I'd say it smacks of AI generated, not written by someone and each post from someone, but from a canned response.  Have you ever seen anything else like this on this board?  Post after post?  No.  If it walks like a duck. . . 


@Sooner.  I guess you'll just have to wonder.  I take it at face value.  Too insignificant for speculation.

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@Kachina624 wrote:

 


@Sooner wrote:

@Kachina624 wrote:

@Sooner. On this forum it seems you're damned if you're sweet, kind, and positive and damned if you're the opposite.

Yes, Sandy was a little over the top but that's the way some people are.  I never doubted her sincerity.   I doubt this board is of such importance to warrant generating reesponses.  I, for one, wouldn't even know how to do an AI response.


@Kachina624 It isn't the content.  It is the formatting, the way the language is used, the unnatural makeup of the whole content.

 

I'd say it smacks of AI generated, not written by someone and each post from someone, but from a canned response.  Have you ever seen anything else like this on this board?  Post after post?  No.  If it walks like a duck. . . 


@Sooner.  I guess you'll just have to wonder.  I take it at face value.  Too insignificant for speculation.


@Kachina624 But significant enough to comment on.  Which also is speculation I guess?  

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Her posts were usually upbeat and positive, but I do remember she got blasted big time when she decided to post a thread about Meghan & Harry which of course we all know how that turned out.  What annoyed me about that was after it was deleted by Mods she had the nerve to post a follow-up thread asking why it was poofed.  I mean, come on!

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Why all the speculation?    She posted in her last grouping that she's in Costa Rica visiting family and the Internet isn't good there and will post when it allows her too.

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I am beginning to think some AI format started this thread to roil up the usual conspiracy theorists and naysayers.  Not everything in life is a conspiracy, not everyone is out to get you.  geez blessed mother of Bob Dylan we can't even be concerned about a board member without negative. She was dealing with issues and her mom died months back. 

 

 

we'll at least y'all know I'm not AI generated. Misspelled posts, run on sentences, blah blah. Or, I could be AI generated, pretending to be human.

 

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Re: Sandy Sparkles?

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@tansy. I'm a retired medical transcriptionist. Our field sure has taken a hit, hasn't it?

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