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Man Worried Friend Is AI After Receiving Message Longer Than Single Sentence

Man Worried Friend Is AI After Receiving Message Longer Than Single Sentence
24 APRIL 2026

BERGEN, NORWAY—Staring at his phone and questioning his judgement Friday, local man Jørgen Aarstad expressed worry to reporters that his friend Yvonne Nygård was an AI chatbot after she sent a text message longer than a single sentence. "I dunno man, I just feel like a real human wouldn't write that much. I mean, she actually wrote out ‘I don't know’ rather than using ‘IDK.’ What human does that?" said a distressed Mr. Aarstad as he realised that Ms. Nygård would know that he had seen the message thanks to read receipt technology. "I'm just waiting to see if she sends another message that uses a semicolon or em dash, only AI does that. Or if she maybe says that thing where AI goes ‘its not X, its Y’ or some shit. Just come on! What next? Is she gonna write a message that I have to scroll to read the whole thing?" After speaking to Mr. Aarstad, reporters were able to find Ms. Nygård and confirm that she is indeed a human being, confirming her friend is just a paranoid piece of shit. When told that his friend was not an AI, Mr. Aarstad refused to believe reporters, consulting Google's AI chatbot Gemini on whether the messages she sent were that of an AI, which Gemini said "it's not just wrong; it's stupid" to believe his friend is an AI.