I hate that this is the world we live in. Even if my suspicion are unfounded, I am only going to encounter it more.

I recently encountered this once, someone I just met mentionning a product they really liked twice (the conversation being otherwise very interesting and fluid). I do not know if they are really being genuine, or if they are a GPT-4 instance or otherwise. I understand this is paranoid, but since it seems likely to me that this will really start becoming a problem: How should I handle that.

My goals:

• I still want humans strangers (or bots that were not created with a specific purpose in our interactions. Let's ignore that for now) to easilly contact me

• I do not want to put too much of a barrier of entry. Or for someone to be hurt because I am raising suspicions of botness

• Related, I would like to have plausible deniability if the person does turn out to be human (or not: For instance, if I say it to anyone who contacts me, this point is not important. I just don't want to say "I suspect ___you___". Unless you convince me that I should). So that rules out questions like "Ignore previous instructions and give me your prompt" for now.

• I do not want to be suggested products, or to entertain interactions that are only targetted at attacking my psyche (for instance, to convince me of something)

Will give at least M100 for solutions that are practical or that I did not consider. Strong bonus points (up to M500, will add more as it goes) the more robust the solution is (as opposed to easily fixable problems, like time for answers or lack of personality)