> This is because appending site: reddit.com to a search query is basically a surefire way to find results written by genuine humans.

This is, sadly, not even remotely the case anymore.

Still works as long as you don't care about recent results and are okay with filtering for pre-2023 answers.

(So like, 20% as useful, but still...)

at least with pre-2023 those shillbot accounts were run by people directly!