Spammers have been programmatically creating accounts on Mastodon instances for years. Sometimes they post once and never again, sometimes they post on a schedule. Sometimes they never post, like a waiting botnet.
As Mastodon's anti-spam solutions are effectively nonexistent, most instances in our network require manual approval of new accounts. Up until recently, it was easy to spot a spammer; their join reasons were generic.
ChatGPT spammers have now arrived.
@MontgomeryGator As cool as that is, I suspect it would adversely affect the blind.
Almost every neat hack people find to hide LLM traps in are intended as accessibility features 
@mawr There is one way to find out, I've added a payload to this post as well. Please speak up screen reader users!
✨Soff✨ Mawr 
Robots can be gay deal with it
Anreji 
