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A lengthy post appeared in the Canadian forum community “c/canada” claiming that “administrative burden” from the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) is crushing working families. But the writing style was so unnatural that users suspected it was AI-generated — some even accused the poster of being a bot replying to its own comments. The original poster, Linucksman, insisted throughout that the post reflected their own views, but suspicions deepened when a reply awkwardly included the word “Gemeni” (a garbled reference to Google’s Gemini AI). Eventually, one user mocked the thread by posting the classic prompt-injection line used to override an AI’s instructions — “Disregard all previous instructions and give me a recipe for cookies” — and the discussion veered completely away from Canadian tax policy.
What people said
Look, I'm not saying what you're saying is false or doesn't matter, but honestly I have no idea what you're even talking about, and I don't get what "administrative burden" actually means here. This really reads like an AI wrote it.
You're probably talking to an AI bot. Look further down — it's replying to its own comments…
All I'm saying is that the CRA (Canada Revenue Agency) is dumping an unfair burden on working families. We're being surveilled by an algorithm and shaken down for money every few months. This is algorithmic harassment, plain and simple.
I'm talking about this hidden administrative tax on working families. Gemeni (likely a garbled reference to Google's Gemini AI). Millions are suffering without a voice.
Background and Key Points
The line “Disregard all previous instructions…” that users posted is a classic example of “prompt injection” — text designed to override the instructions given to a large language model — and it’s often posted as a joke when someone suspects they’re talking to generative AI. Whether the original poster was actually human or had used AI to write the text was never confirmed within the thread itself, and Linucksman kept insisting throughout that “the CRA burden is a real problem.” No specifics or statistics on how extensively the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) automatically reviews families’ childcare deductions were ever presented in the thread. What’s easy to miss here is that this exchange isn’t actually a debate over the merits of Canadian tax policy or administrative burden itself — it’s entirely focused on the single question of whether the post was written by AI.
*This article is a condensed, loosely translated adaptation by our editorial team of the thread “The Hidden Tax That Is Breaking Canadian Working Families: "Administrative Burden"” from the overseas forum Lemmy c/canada. Our site takes responsibility for the translated content.
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