Did i get shifted for my first gun (Yes i know its my fault for using AI)

[mrzombz]

Hey, a couple months ago I decided i would start with a GBBR
I found a classified for a GHK Ak74m (4 mags, zentico furniture and acog) sold and shipped by a Scottish chef.
Now, I had the silly idea to use AI chatbot as my source of advice, it was adamant this was a perfect deal and was the most liquid replica i could get (my single, single, single criteria was resale value and sale liquidity.
I paid 500£ + 200£ in gas, a new nozzle and a cleaning kit etc.
I think this would have been fine if it was a modern GHK replica but instead it seems its a v2 version.
Parts are in extremely low stock, i cant find a new return spring, barely found the nozzle. I tried to undo my mistake and listed it here for 350£
Absolutey zero interest from anyone. am i cooked? do i just take the loss? I kind of need money for my engineering project - alfred-leigh.co.uk/projects
Any advice?

 

[novioman]

Did you buy it on here.

 

[Austeyr]

This seems like an advert...? @Tackle

Anyway, people don't want GHK's because as you've discovered - They're shit. You said it came with zenitco furniture etc, part it out and sell it seperately. More people will be interested in the furniture than the gun itself. You will end up losing money, that's just the nature of second hand sales.

You talk about resale value and sale liquidity, airsoft replicas definitely aren't an investment (Aside from some niche old platforms, I guess)

 

[Cannonfodder]

Anyone else getting vibes that something isn't right about this post?

 

[Austeyr]

Anyone else getting vibes that something isn't right about this post?

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It feels very ChatGPT written and the fact he's included a link to a site that gives his CV is very strange.

 

[Anonymoose]

Anyone else getting vibes that something isn't right about this post?

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Yep.

 

[Mtemprell]

It feels very ChatGPT written and the fact he's included a link to a site that gives his CV is very strange.

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Added the £ after the price. Not before as is the usual way to write it. Definitely feels AI written. Hopefully the AI bots aren't invading us already haha.

 

[Cannonfodder]

Added the £ after the price. Not before as is the usual way to write it. Definitely feels AI written. Hopefully the AI bots aren't invading us already haha.

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That was one of the things which got my bullshit meter twitching. His claim about trying to sell the gun here is also bollocks as his only advert is for a nozzle.

and the fact he's included a link to a site that gives his CV is very strange

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Very strange indeed, along with mentioning his other "projects".

 

[Austeyr]

Hopefully the AI bots aren't invading us already haha.

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Sadly there's already been a few I've spotted. They have a message that mostly makes sense and is with mostly relevance to the topic it comments on and then it ends up divulging into some kind of advert for a website that has nothing to do with airsoft... Wait a minute...

 

[Punisher3990]

Ngl the £ being at the end instantly annoyed my ocd lol def a weird posting for sure.

 

[Lyndication]

There has only ever been a V2 GHK AK74M and parts are still available though they're becoming scarce.

But yeah the vibes are off and the whole thing doesn't make sense. Wdym "buy for liquidity," there's no such thing in this hobby. You're exchanging cash, the most liquid asset in human history, for it.

It's a weird post but it makes spelling and punctuation errors that AI doesn't, btw.

 

[Anonymoose]

£200 in gas.. that's like 30 cans.

 

[Cannonfodder]

It's a weird post but it makes spelling and punctuation errors that AI doesn't, btw.

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Wouldn't the AI model's language be affected by what sites were fed through it? I've seen Reddit posts with worse spelling punctuation and grammar than a split can of alphabet spaghetti so if similar was used then I can see why AI gets so much wrong

 

[GiantKiwi]

This is written by a person, AI doesnt tend to add unnecessary details (scottish chef bit for example), and rarely outputs anything where use of "I did something" with the "i" being lowercase.

It is however extremely disingenous.

(Currently spending inordinate amounts of work time testing and evaluating AI academic plagiarism detection LLM's)

 

[EvilMonkee]

Yeh its Ai bullshit - buying a rifle purely for resale value? Fuck off. Anyway GHK v2 is still parts available and in addition it never had a nozzle return spring. Even AI can't get its shit right

 

[Lyndication]

Wouldn't the AI model's language be affected by what sites were fed through it? I've seen Reddit posts with worse spelling punctuation and grammar than a split can of alphabet spaghetti so if similar was used then I can see why AI gets so much wrong

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Nah, AI reverts heavily to the mean which is ultimately correct punctuation, grammar, and spelling. It's actually quite hard to get it to misspell stuff deliberately.

Bear in mind that as much as it inhaled terrible grammar Facebook content, they also fed it literally every book and newspaper ever written plus all the rest of the internet which broadly has good grammar.

 

[Colin Allen]

(Currently spending inordinate amounts of work time testing and evaluating AI academic plagiarism detection LLM's)

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In my experience, most of them are pretty unreliable.