It's only going to get weirder: we've started seeing AI-written spam replies on, of all things, the Playdate Developer Forum?!?!

Tucked into their reply was a random link to another website, so the goal is SEO, as always.

But you gotta love the helpful suggestion to use Core Motion or SensorManager on your Playdate

@cabel Itโ€™s all downhill from here
@cabel Just fantastic. Now we only need AI content moderation. ๐Ÿคฆ๐Ÿฝ
@cabel I saw something like this on a cycling forum. In reply to someone doing a "suicide move" in a race (all or nothing type effort) there was a post about how hard things can be, but suicide isn't the answer or something. And yes, there was a link in the autogenerated reply.

@cabel Maybe they can begin advocating for network connectivity? Iโ€™d love to have URLSession support.

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@cabel Seriously, though: Do you rewrite the URLs to have โ€œrel=โ€˜nofollowโ€™โ€ attached?

That should help remove the incentive a bit.

@jeff By default, Discourse, the forum software they use, does this unless the author has gained a high trust level.
@cabel It would be cool if there was a method to report chatGPT abuse and have these kinds of uses dealt with - I imagine it would be possible to find the users / configure chatGPT to decline to answer those kinds of requests
@cabel This reminds me of a digital oil spill. Going to take serious effort to clean up the mess automated AI is going to leave on the web.