OpenAI CEO Sam Altman recently voiced fears over the truthfulness of social media content, wondering if bots were behind a good deal of it.

In an eye-opening X post, Altman explained how he scrolled through discussions in the r/Claudecode subreddit and how people were complimenting OpenAI's Codex. This made people think if real people were really writing this stuff.

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Altman's observation followed seeing a majority of posts from users saying they had switched over to OpenAI Codex, a rival programming service with Claude Code by Anthropic. A Reddit user even joked about using Codex without announcing it on Reddit publicly.

This prompted Altman's epiphany: how many of those posts were actually human-generated content? He confes

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