'You won’t know if you're talking to a human': Paytm CEO on AI-created content flooding internet

'I wish we could filter posts by AI bots or humans,' Vijay Shekhar Sharma said.

Paytm founder and CEO Vijay Shekhar Sharma has raised concerns regarding flooding social media with content created by AI (artificial intelligence) tools. Responding to a report published by The Guardian on the same matter, Sharma said we may soon reach a stage where it'll be difficult to tell if we are communicating with a human or a bot.

"I wish we could filter posts by AI bots or humans. Sadly, soon, you won’t know if you are talking to a human or a bot," he wrote on X.

I wish we could filter posts by AI bots or humans.Sadly, soon, you wont know if you are talking to a human or a bot.. https://t.co/EKl5x1Y54i Vijay Shekhar Sharma (@vijayshekhar) January 12, 2025

The Paytm chief also shared screenshots of how Grok, the AI chatbot developed by X, was offering him suggestions in Hindi for his posts.

The trend of getting content created by AI tools has also given birth to AI slop or internet spam -- low-quality text, videos, and images generated by AI. In fact, more than 54 percent of longer English-language posts on LinkedIn are likely to be generated by AI, WIRED reported quoting a new analysis shared with them exclusively by the AI detection startup Originality AI.

It scanned a sample of 8,795 public LinkedIn posts over 100 words long that were published between January 2018 and October 2024 to find that the first few years, the use of AI writing tools on LinkedIn was negligible but there was a spike at the beginning of 2023. “The uptick happened when ChatGPT came out,” Originality AI CEO Jon Gillham told the publication.