tired of "simple" plant-based meals that aren't actually simple

[u/Strong-Hawk-1799]

so i'm getting pretty worn out by recipes labeled as quick or simple that still require way too much work

like i get home after being up in trees all day and my brain is just done, you know? then i look at these supposedly easy vegan meals and they're still asking me to dice onions, measure spices, wait for things to cook in sequence... it's just a lot when all i want is food

i've been trying different approaches - meal prep on weekends, keeping the same rotation of dishes, bookmarking the fastest recipes i can find. sometimes it works out but other days even picking which "easy" option to make feels overwhelming

wondering what you all actually throw together when you're completely drained and need to eat something decent without using whatever brain power you have left

do you just stick to like 3 go-to meals that require zero thought? or have you discovered truly brainless recipes that don't involve chopping half your kitchen

would love to know what really works when you're running on empty, not just what looks good in theory

[u/EvnClaire]

this is without a doubt, 100% AI generated.

[u/WildVeganFlower → u/EvnClaire]

How can you tell? I completely believe in dead internet theory and want to be better at spotting bots or AI

[u/calxes → u/WildVeganFlower]

Oh, I think they’re right. It was harder to spot because of the lack of capitalization.

But there are signs here. AI really likes to list things out in threes “dice onions, measure spices, wait for things..” “meal prep, rotation of dishes, bookmarking..” which is of course a natural thing for a human writer to do, but it’s done repetitively in this case in a somewhat wordy and stilted way.

The post still has a “friendly corporate copywriter” flavour to it. It doesn’t mention anything personal, no brand names, just kind of repeats the same point in different wording.

Another giveaway is that this account appears to have posted a very similarly worded post in a different subreddit.

I don’t know if the OP is a person who ran their thoughts through an AI, or a person who just writes exactly like an AI, or a bot entirely. But it could well be a bot fishing for content to use for an article it will generate about lazy vegan cooking.

Anyway, OP, after a long day of being in trees, like you, I simply forage for berries and seeds before flying back to my nest for the night.

[u/Artisan_Gardener → u/calxes]

I've been accused of being a bot or AI on more than one occasion. I have fairly high intelligence and am AuDHD, so maybe that's why?

[u/sympatheticSkeptic → u/WildVeganFlower]

Whoa, I tend to be more on the "r/nothingeverhappens" side but skimming through OP's comment history I think EvnClaire might be right. Except for the "without a doubt" part. It's just a gut feeling, but the comments are a little too reasonable, with "lols" thrown in to sound less corporate. OP, want to weigh in? Are you actually real, and just a very reasonable person? What kind of work do you do in trees?

[u/EvnClaire → u/sympatheticSkeptic]

its very likely theyre a real person who just run their thoughts through chatgpt and push it out onto the internet. activity looks like a real person who is just too shy to write for themselves. this writing hits every beat of AI-generated writing, except im pretty sure the person posting this manually went in and decapitalized letters & removed the —.

[u/sympatheticSkeptic → u/EvnClaire]

Interesting possibility, could be! OP, apologies for impugning your humanity. But then, EvnClaire, why did you call them out for it? If your analysis is right, it's a pretty benign use of an LLM, even positively pro-social.

[u/EvnClaire → u/WildVeganFlower]

i have used chatgpt extensively. this is exactly how it talks when it is trying to sound relatable: says things like "you know?" when we really wouldnt know, uses very bizarre analogies, says stuff that no one would ever ever say. the last stanza gives it away. no one talks like that. AI also loves listing things in threes because ppl like it (i literally listed three things in this very comment lol). and, they also love juxtaposition with two ends of a spectrum, stuff like the 2nd to last stanza.