Roger BycekMay 11, 2023
Cabel Sasser

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

May 10, 2023 at 9:27pmWeb
Show threadZacMay 10, 2023
@cabel It’s all downhill from here
Show threadMartin Du4May 10, 2023
@cabel Just fantastic. Now we only need AI content moderation. 🤦🏽
Show threadJohn PorterMay 10, 2023
@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.
Show threadJeff C. 🇺🇦🇬🇱May 10, 2023

@cabel Maybe they can begin advocating for network connectivity? I’d love to have URLSession support.

😁

Show threadJeff C. 🇺🇦🇬🇱May 10, 2023

@cabel Seriously, though: Do you rewrite the URLs to have “rel=‘nofollow’” attached?

That should help remove the incentive a bit.

Show threadyProdMay 11, 2023
@jeff By default, Discourse, the forum software they use, does this unless the author has gained a high trust level.
Show threadTom FinniganMay 10, 2023
@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
Show threadgstratfordMay 11, 2023
@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.