New Delhi, Sept. 9 -- OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has sparked renewed discussion on the authenticity of online content, saying, "I assume it's all fake/bots, even though in this case I know Codex growth is really strong and the trend here is real."

His candid observation highlights growing concerns over the prevalence of AI-generated posts across social media platforms and the challenges users face in distinguishing human activity from automated content.

In a post on X on 8 September 2025, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman shared:

"I think there are a bunch of things going on: real people have picked up quirks of LLM-speak, the Extremely Online crowd drifts together in very correlated ways, the hype cycle has a very 'it's so over/we're so back' extremis...