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.
@furicle if we had a huge volume, that might be a solution, but moderation is a learned skill that takes experience to be good at.
I've been doing it for years, and I still mess up sometimes.
The real goal is to make it take more resources to be a dick than it does to suspend a dick. As long as the balance is in the mods' favor, we'll keep a good community.
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furicle