Dan GillmorFacebook bots invading forums where people are trying to have conversations with other people is a genuinely evil development.
Christian Kent@dangillmor I think I spotted one in Mastodon recently, following a popular personality. I'm sort of Turing testing them, with some steg, so it remains valid. (If you're interested I'll disclose the account so you can do your own research)
@dangillmor While I'm here — there's a definite 30%-50% of follow requests from accounts that I can't describe as legit.
I need to write up a post about this, and maybe a short YouTube video with nice screen recordings of scrolling through the dodgy accounts …
But for now, spammy and AI'y accounts are easy to find. I mean, it's a soft line between that and a leachy Facebook friend who is hooked on bait and wasting both your time.
On Mastodon, turn off auto-accept and check out the "replies".