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Re:Ancient City Found in the Amazon by shmageggy on Friday January 12, 2024 @07:27AM (#38967247)
Without the GPT-speak:

> Archaeology has historically assumed that European civilization was more significant and advanced than others, a view possibly rooted in ethnocentrism and racism, but findings like these challenge that assumption.

Please just say what you want to say without pasting a bunch of fluff from a chat bot.

Re:Ancient City Found in the Amazon by ChainOfFools on Friday January 12, 2024 @12:29PM (#38971052)
Not to say that's what the person you're replying to is doing, but I'm seeing an increasing trend of "sophisticated"-presenting people posting GPT-esque blather with sarcastic intent, in social contexts where they are fully aware that it will be recognized as such, as a way to discredit or demean the point that they're posting about, presumably underscoring some idea that it's just parrot speak anyway.

It amounts to this decade's version of talking in a robotic monotone.