Don’t panic. TTAG is not using A.I. to write anything. Instead, we want to teach you how to spot A.I.-created content.
The gun industry is rife with artificial intelligence-created content, from various articles to full-on Youtube channels. There is so much computer-created slop it gets overwhelming. I actually avoided most of this by sticking to sources I trust.
Still, I started seeing photos I had taken for TTAG and other websites and even YouTube videos being recycled for A.I. generated content.
In fact, I found out I’m the founder and CEO of a website that uses computer-generated content to create articles on gun safes. They stitched my name to articles I had never written and scrubbed what I assume has to be my LinkedIn page to create an author’s page.
At that point, it got personal for me. I wanted to see what a basic artificial intelligence program could do to write a gun article. Specifically, a review. I had no experience with this technology beyond the now-defunct Google Bard, which is a thesaurus for me. In fact, I didn’t know Bard turned into Gemini.
I told it to write a review of the new Ruger RXM.
The A.I. Written Review
The Ruger RXM has entered the crowded field of polymer-framed, striker-fired pistols, aiming to carve out its niche. This review will examine its key features, performance, and overall value.
First impressions are positive. The collaboration with Magpul is immediately apparent in the grip design. The ergonomics are excellent, providing a comfortable and secure hold. The texture is aggressive enough to prevent slippage without being overly abrasive. The relief cut behind the trigger guard allows for a higher grip, which aids in recoil management.
The trigger on the RXM is a notable improvement over some of Ruger’s previous offerings. It features a flat-faced design, which is becoming increasingly popular. The break is relatively clean, with minimal creep and a predictable reset. While it may not rival custom triggers, it is certainly adequate for its intended purpose.
Optics readiness is a standard feature in modern pistols, and the RXM doesn’t disappoint. The slide is cut to accept common red dot sights, eliminating the need for adapter plates. This is a significant advantage for those who prefer to use optics. The included iron sights are also well-designed, constructed of steel and featuring a tritium front sight with a white outline. This provides a clear and reliable sight picture in various lighting conditions.
Reliability is paramount in any firearm, and the RXM has demonstrated consistent performance. During testing, it cycled a variety of ammunition types without any malfunctions. This speaks to the pistol’s robust design and build quality. The RXM’s fire control insert being removable, and having compatability with gen 3 glock parts, is a huge advantage to the user.
In terms of accuracy, the RXM performs admirably. At typical self-defense distances, it consistently produced tight groupings. Recoil is manageable, thanks in part to the ergonomic grip and the pistol’s overall design.
The RXM’s build quality is solid. The polymer frame feels sturdy, and the slide is well-machined. The controls are easily accessible and operate smoothly. The pistol’s modularity is another plus, allowing users to customize it to their preferences.
Overall, the Ruger RXM is a well-rounded pistol that offers excellent value. Its ergonomic design, reliable performance, and optics readiness make it a strong contender in its class. While it may not have any groundbreaking features, it excels in the fundamentals. For those seeking a dependable and capable self-defense or general-purpose pistol, the Ruger RXM is a worthy consideration.
Not That Bad for A.I.
At first glance, it’s not that bad. It’s surprisingly well-made. How did it source the information? Well, I asked it, and Gemini replied:
- Professional Firearms Publications:
- Online Forums and Communities:
- Video Reviews:
- Manufacturer Specifications
It scrapes the web to generate information, using real user reviews to generate a seemingly passing review. With that in mind, what are some keys to avoiding A.I.-written reviews?
Sorting Through the Slop
The best way to look for A.I.-written slop content is to look for a personal touch that tends to involve specificity. The review mentions the gun’s accuracy at self-defense ranges but never specifies what that range is or any idea of group size beyond tight groupings. Look for numbers, specific ranges, group sizes, number of rounds fired, or drill times.
Phrases stated in the first person, like “I enjoyed shooting the Ruger RXM,” aren’t present in the review. You want to look for first-person writing or even a story about another specific shooter, not just vague performance-driven statements.
You should expect to see anecdotes and emotional responses. Was it fun, painful, satisfying, or disappointing? You expect to see some kind of emotional response. Human reviewers tend to use comparisons to other guns or reference the firearms industry, but it’s rare to see A.I. do anything similar.
Look for gaps in the A.I.’s knowledge. For example, Gemini states, “The collaboration with Magpul is immediately apparent in the grip design.” Okay, great. What does that mean? If I wrote the review, I’d mention how it feels identical to Magpul AR grips and how Magpul polymer and texture have a recognizable, specific feel.
You also get this sort of uncanny valley feeling from reading an A.I. review. It’s overly formal. A lot of A.I. text looks like what I wrote to pass English class in high school: short sentences devoid of alliteration, emotion, conversational tone, or structure.
Sifting
Sifting through slop isn’t easy. One of the best ways to avoid getting tricked by A.I. is to stick to resources you know and trust. It would suck to be starting a firearm-themed website in 2025 and trying to make a solid name in a sea of A.I.-generated content. The silver lining is that, hopefully, A.I. will stop people from assuming everything on the internet is true.
Hopefully, we’ve helped show you what A.I. can do and will help you sort through the crap with ease.
Bonus Features
You stuck around long enough and read to the end, so I’ll reward you with an A.I. written gun review in the style of Dr. Seuss.
In a world of pistols, so many to see,
Came a new one from Ruger, the RXM, you agree?
With Magpul’s great grip, so comfy and tight,
You’ll hold it all day, and shoot through the night!
The trigger, oh my, it’s smooth as can be,
No grittiness there, you’ll happily see!
With optics on top, a red dot so bright,
You’ll hit every target, with all of your might!
The rounds go in smoothly, they fly out with glee,
A reliable pistol, for you and for me!
No jams or no hiccups, it’s sturdy and strong,
You’ll shoot it all day, and never go wrong!
From range days to home, it’s ready to go,
This RXM pistol, puts on quite a show!
So if you want a gun, that’s fun and it’s neat,
The Ruger RXM, can’t be beat, can’t be beat!
Hmmm….I wonder if I could get Grok to criticize the output from ChatGPT and Gemini….and visa-versa…start some argument going between the AI engines. That might be fun!!
A.I. prove to me Gun Control is not Rooted in Racism and Genocide…
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How odd Travis, at times I’ve thought some of your articles were written by A.I.
“Don’t panic. TTAG is not using A.I. to write anything. Instead, we want to teach you how to spot A.I.-created content. ”
Just what A.I. would write if it wanted to fool people. ????
lol!
I rather liked the Dr. Seuss style version. Though, that might have been because I was reading one of those to my granddaughter yesterday.
I do not like glock clones, I don’t
I will not buy one, no I won’t
I will not shoot one, here or there
I will not shoot them anywhere
The problem with AI, you see –
its all just Natural Stupidity
What AI tool add the word “clones” to the passage bashing Glucks?. Changes the entire content/meaning of the thing.
Read the review from Mar. 11 here on this site, or from any number of other sources, and then get back to us on why you think that this Ruger is NOT a glock clone.
Go ahead, we’ll wait.
Very nice,
I like it I do
“Grok, write a review of the Glock 18 in the style of Penthouse Letters”
????
Hmmm…I’ve seen a lot of AI pop up on fake book & youtube lately(& more shills). Gemini is bad. As is Siri. As is google. As are all the other myriad BS “helpers”. I’m not a 70 year old luddite (yet!). I tried duck duck go. Slow & quirky. I rarely come to TTAG for gat information( more than 11 years)but politics is why I’m mainly here. Where is GunsSavesLife???
Well, I’m an 80 yo luddite. Have patience, you’ll get there if you’re lucky. 🙂
Has Gemini been fixed? The first public version refused to acknowledge the existence of white people.
No doubt an “unintentional bias” from the creator. Which makes you wonder what bias is built into DeepSeek.
AI is gay
haha.
if anyone thinks AI will not put out the opinions of the owner, I got a bridge to sell you.
It may be called AI, but it all goes back to who made it. GIGO is still a thing
It’s Official! USAID Shutting Down, Democrats Hardest Hit.
“Patriots, rejoice: USAID, that all-purpose piggy bank for far-left ideologues and jihad terrorists the world over, is now in its final days, and not a moment too soon. USAID has rightly been Exhibit A in DOGE’s contention that the federal government has been wasting staggering amounts of money for years, and it is a massive victory for the Trump administration that this sinister agency, which has also been actively funding America’s enemies, is on its way to the dustbin of history.
The New York Post reported that Trump’s State Department ‘formally announced Friday it is closing the US Agency for International Development (USAID) after the Trump administration prevailed in a federal court case challenging the Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency’s (DOGE) cost-cutting actions.’ …
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https://pjmedia.com/robert-spencer/2025/03/29/its-official-usaid-shutting-down-democrats-hardest-hit-n4938403
So the 25th isn’t going to handing out toothbrushes and candy bars to win hearts and minds anymore?
Golly
No more funding for trans-pride days in Gaza?
Shucks there goes those vacation plans.
no more funding for hundreds of trans-centric programs… for example, trans-porno-comic books for 6 – 8 year olds in Paraguay, trans ‘transition’ surgery in Europe, male-to-female trans ‘pregnancy care’ in Spain and other countries, trans brothels in the far and middle east, trans indoctrination programs on how to have ‘trans’ sex for 3-4th graders here in the U.S., and hundreds more from the Biden-Harris regime.
STP in the trannie will give you trick shift
I didn’t see that one, but some of the projects were so ludicrous on their face that you have to wonder if the money wasn’t going to something else entirely.
You Won’t Believe What Insanity HHS Was Funding.
“…
‘TranscendentHealth – Adapting an LGB+ inclusive teen pregnancy prevention program for transgender boys,’ reads another $1,319,024 grant awarded to the Center for Innovative Public Health Research.
The University of California, San Francisco’s $2,554,402 grant for “Structural Racism and Discrimination in Older Men’s Health Inequities” also was canceled … as was a $822,539 grant to UCLA called “Buddhism and HIV Stigma in Thailand: An Intervention Study.
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Altogether, hundreds of NIH grants on ‘gender’ or DEI topics have already been canceled, including research on ‘multilevel and multidimensional structural racism’ (whatever that means), ‘gender-affirming hormone therapy in mice’, and ‘microaggressions.
…”
https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2025/03/29/you-wont-believe-what-insanity-hhs-was-funding-n4938389
Fraud Waste Abuse: Dodgy Biden Program That Used Money for Needy Americans to Pay for College for Illegals Finally Scrapped.
“The Department of Education has revoked programs in California and Oregon that diverted student aid targeted for low-income students, first-generation college students, and individuals with disabilities to illegal immigrants. The money came from the TRIO Program (this is not an acronym; it refers to the three — trio, get it? — original aid programs: Upward Bound, Talent Search, and Student Support Services) and was made possible by a waiver of the law’s requirement that only citizens and resident aliens were eligible.
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The diversion of funds from needy and vulnerable Americans to illegals was carried out under the auspices of the Performance Partnership Pilots for Disconnected Youth (P3) which is supposed to provide aid to people ‘between the ages of 14-24 who are low-income and are homeless; in foster care; involved in the juvenile justice system; unemployed; or not enrolled in or are at risk of dropping out of an educational institution.’
‘American taxpayer dollars will no longer be used to subsidize illegal immigrants through Department of Education programs,’ said Acting Under Secretary James Bergeron.
…”
https://redstate.com/streiff/2025/03/29/dodgy-biden-program-that-used-money-for-needy-americans-to-pay-for-college-for-illegals-finally-scrapped-n2187266
We’re saving more and more money with every passing day, all due to DOGE’s efforts.
And yet our Congress keeps saying we need to raise the debt ceiling come fall.
I say no way. If anything, we should be LOWERING the debt ceiling as we pay it off. That’s what I did with my personal finances years ago when I took Dave Ramsey’s plan to heart and paid off all of my personal debt.
We need to start removing congressional members from both houses for being anti-2A or for being spendy. We can’t afford spendy.
You mean we haven’t been getting ALL the government we have been paying for???
I haven’t done anything with Gemini but I’m amused that it seems to write consistently in short, choppy compound sentences which isn’t something I’d have even really thought possible until reading that.
Given that none of this is actual AI, I have to kind of laugh that it writes in that style. Apparently feeding these LLMs billions of written comments and articles results in a linguistic style that is essentially foreign to human beings. Ironic, that.
I gave up all hope when I found out Cherry Dr. Pepper was artificially flavored.
Worse yet… it’s actually no more of a doctor than Jill Biden was.
They won’t even use real pepper?
And the domestic terrorist violent left wing mental illness continues in yet another attack, making this number ~2,300 nationwide in the last five days, upon innocent people, some involving Tesla’s and some not, this one another Tesla involved incident…
Deranged leftist lunatic nearly runs Tesla Cybertruck family off the road.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIhgRo77N3s
Tesla ‘Global Day of Action’ Leads to Arrests.
“Federal authorities are on high alert as tensions rise over the so-called ‘Global Day of Action’ planned by anti-Tesla activists following a wave of nationwide violence that has already led to several arrests.
…”
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/saraharnold/2025/03/29/tesla-global-day-of-action-n2654684
‘still in the closet’ Tampon ‘stolen valor’ prancing self-confessed marx -ist social -list Democrat Tim Walz calls for ‘Shadow Government’ to Fight Trump.
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/jeff-charles/2025/03/29/tim-walz-calls-for-shadow-government-to-oppose-trumps-agenda-n2654686
Walz should be arrested.
What does it take? Direct death threats.
We all know some would champion that.
Commie Boomers Bus in a Rent-a-Mob to a Texas Tesla, Prove They Can’t Find Enough Local Loons.
https://twitchy.com/justmindy/2025/03/29/dana-loesch-tesla-dealership-texas-n2410670
Its fortunate that Texas has Austin handy with its loonie marxist degenerates aplenty.
Reason 1,001: This Is Why We Must NEVER Give Up Our Right to Keep and Bear Arms. EVER!
https://townhall.com/columnists/tomknighton/2025/03/29/this-is-why-we-must-never-give-up-our-right-to-keep-and-bear-arms-ever-n2654679
Scammer Hogg soy-boy is out: March For Our Lives Lays Off Most Employees.
“…
March For Our Lives is slashing its employees and appointing a new leader.
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https://bearingarms.com/tomknighton/2025/03/28/march-for-our-lives-lays-off-most-employees-n1228125
Trump Issues Executive Order to Ease Concealed Carry in Washington, D.C.
https://bearingarms.com/camedwards/2025/03/28/trump-issues-executive-order-to-ease-concealed-carry-in-washington-dc-n1228130
Enjoy all the “wins”, they will be reversed shortly after Jan 20, 2028. The alleged voter count is essentially 50-50. The course of the nation will likely go left and right for a coupla more election cycles, and then the Left will tire of it all. . . . . which will likely result in “the man on horseback” arriving to sort it all out.
Wrong! This year I learned that your favorite local federal judge can control the executive branch. If they try to rehire the bureaucracy, a federal judge can tell them they have to fire them. If they try to import another 12 million poor people, our favorite judge can tell them they have 32 hours to send them all back. Et cetera. I’m pretty sure that’s how things work now. All Trump has to do is nominate his favorite judge to take over when he leaves office.
I think you’ll find that a leftist admin would have far less restraint in ignoring court orders than the Trump admin has.
The current “winning” will come to a halt as a result of the mid-terms; always does. Trump has always been a lame duck president. It is no accident, or oversight, that the House and Senate are not being restrained from voting to validate all of Trump’s EOs/EAs. Remember, Trump asked the Republicrats to deal with the debt ceiling prior to his taking office, so as to not divert attention from his agenda; did not happen.
“The Establishment” includes both major US political parties. Trump threatens both wings, and they don’t like it. Both are part of “the Resistence”. Note that Trump withdrew Stefanik’s nomination because he doesn’t trust the Republicrats to win the election for her replacement. Trump knows he must be on full blast, everyday, because he knows the mid-terms will put an end to getting anything done after.
Six months prior to the mid-terms is when the brakes get put on by Congresscritters attempting to get reelected.
You get about 18 months. That’s why Obama’s people went so hard on the “Service Members Home Ownership Tax Act of 2009”, later called “the ACA” after Charlie Rangel introduced it. Took a bit over six months to get it through the Legislature and the better part a year of wrangling about how to write it before that. All told it took about 14 months, passed and signed in March 2010 with the election on November 2, less than seven months after the signing.
Sam, you also predicted now-ex-vice-president Cackles would win the 2024 election.
“Sam, you also predicted now-ex-vice-president Cackles would win the 2024 election.”
She did win, but the election was rigged and stolen by the Trump MAGA horde.
And corrupt public officials.
And illegals voting in almost every state.
And the mainstream media acting as the political arm of the Trump campaign.
I remain 100% at prestidigitation.
“The silver lining is that, hopefully, A.I. will stop people from assuming everything on the internet is true.”
I don’t know, if they haven’t learned by now, I’m not sure what it would take.
“The silver lining is that, hopefully, A.I. will stop people from assuming everything on the internet is true.”
It isn’t?
no point in being a wet blanket. historically be damned, these are unusual times and it may just get handed to trunk.