I even gave him merit for one of his posts.

It seemed to me that the post might have been generated, but I guess I wanted to believe that a new member had arrived who wanted to be active.
To be honest, it scares me alot when several topics are being passed off and detected with AIs.. plagiarism isn't a big problem to me -- i know for a fact that the forum has been fighting against it for as long as I came in here, and i think we're slowly winning -- but users have improvised and adopted the AIs for almost the same purpose...