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Walker Corollary to Godwin's Law
The Walker Corollary to Godwin’s Law states:
As an online argument gets longer, the probability that somebody dismisses the other person’s point as “AI-generated” approaches 1.
A modern companion to Godwin’s Law, which observes that sufficiently long online arguments eventually produce a comparison to Hitler or the Nazis.
The Walker Corollary describes the increasingly common tendency to accuse someone of using ChatGPT or another AI tool instead of actually responding to their argument — particularly when the other person writes something unusually detailed, polished, well-sourced, or inconvenient to refute.
In practice, “AI-generated” has become the internet equivalent of: “I don’t have a response to what you said, so I’m going to attack how you supposedly wrote it instead.”
As an online argument gets longer, the probability that somebody dismisses the other person’s point as “AI-generated” approaches 1.
A modern companion to Godwin’s Law, which observes that sufficiently long online arguments eventually produce a comparison to Hitler or the Nazis.
The Walker Corollary describes the increasingly common tendency to accuse someone of using ChatGPT or another AI tool instead of actually responding to their argument — particularly when the other person writes something unusually detailed, polished, well-sourced, or inconvenient to refute.
In practice, “AI-generated” has become the internet equivalent of: “I don’t have a response to what you said, so I’m going to attack how you supposedly wrote it instead.”
After twelve replies back and forth, he stopped arguing the actual point and used the Walker Corollary to Godwin's Law.
Walker Corollary to Godwin's Law by GodwinsCousin September 10, 2026