"Thanks, Dianne. You're absolutely right that if the profiles are illustrative examples, they shouldn't be presented as "real students." We'll be correcting that in the next revision of the guide for clarity." is also classic AI wording. I agree, Dianne was communicating with a bot. I think this is a scam. Thank you Dianne, for following up and checking this out. bjb On Sun, Aug 02, 2026 at 10:01:45PM -0400, Dianne Skoll via linux wrote: > On Sun, 2 Aug 2026 21:50:32 -0400 > James via linux <linux [ at ] linux-ottawa [ dot ] org> wrote: > > > Call me cynical but it sounds to me like you were talking to an AI bot. > > I ran some of their replies through a couple of AI detectors. The > verdicts were generally: "Probably human-generated, but AI-edited and > polished." I think the detectors are not too accurate with such small > amounts of text. > > But: "That's a fair question" is definitely something an AI would say. > > Regards, > > Dianne. > > To unsubscribe send a blank message to linux+unsubscribe [ at ] linux-ottawa [ dot ] org > To get help send a blank message to linux+help [ at ] linux-ottawa [ dot ] org > To visit the archives: https://lists.linux-ottawa.org > ---end quoted text--- To unsubscribe send a blank message to linux+unsubscribe [ at ] linux-ottawa [ dot ] org To get help send a blank message to linux+help [ at ] linux-ottawa [ dot ] org To visit the archives: https://lists.linux-ottawa.org