A few months ago, I read a superb poem online by a poet previously unknown to me. I posted it on Facebook and sent him a friend request so that I could tell him how much I liked it. Then I didn't hear anything more from him. — Today, on a recent post of mine, he wrote a snarky comment implying the text was AI-generated. Especially after my bad experiences with other snarky comments over the last year and a half, my response was swift: I deleted the comment, unfriended the poet, and blocked him. But maybe I wouldn't have done so if he had actually engaged with some of posts previously. (Andrew Shields, #111Words, 28 July 2025)