I'm getting burnt out on all my moderation actions being against fucking AI. Like, I never thought I'd say it, but I miss suspending Nazis and bigots—at least they were real people who would give up after a while—these LLMs just go on and on, and they don't give a shit if they're suspended or rejected.
#FuckLLMs (but also #FuckNazis and #FuckBigots)
It's getting bad. Like 80+% of our instance applications are AI-generated now, and it's a huge waste of time to action them.
There seem to be several different models, and they all use throwaway email providers and VPNs.
We have one model that just "wants community" in a couple sentences, one that is looking for "tech-minded, open source friends", one that just spews word-salad, one that copies and pastes other people's bios, and at least a couple that try various plausible messages.
The better they get, the more resources it takes us to identify and reject them.
They're like fucking fruit flies.
I don't think it's about engagement. I think they are simply trying to drown everyone out. Either the instance they target gets sick of it and shuts down or they flood it with bots to say whatever they want. Either way they win unless we can find an efficient way to filter them out.
It's the same as the accounts that steal content from adult creators and repost it as their own (or as "appreciators of the female body").
They're just there to feel special on the back of someone else's work.
@ricci it depends. Some are for catfishing, some for disinformation, some for spam waves, some for data exfiltration, etc.
And a lot of them lie dormant for a while until they reach a certain number of accounts, or until people have forgotten about them, before they act.
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