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by bostik 2134 days ago
You don't need to be a non-native speaker for that. If the other side is convinced you're a bot, it will be very difficult to make them believe otherwise. Which in a funny way has echoes of conspiracy theory believers who take every denial as a further proof of their existing belief.

The first I heard of this was 15 years ago[0]. The original article is no longer online, so the link takes to a PDF rendition. It cites the source.

0: https://msu.edu/~pennock5/courses/ALife/Striegel_Failed_Turi...