Timeline for So many new spam bots thanks to AI - what can we do?
Current License: CC BY-SA 4.0
15 events
| when toggle format | what | by | license | comment | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 5 at 5:49 | comment | added | user1482432 | @AndrewMorton Ironically, OpenAI has a pretty cool captcha system with little puzzles you have to solve. If SE implemented something similar but built in-house that might work. | |
| Mar 28 at 17:50 | comment | added | Andrew Morton | Do you think some sort of AI is needed to detect it? /s | |
| Mar 27 at 23:22 | comment | added | Ramhound | @Makyen - Futhermore, that answer even if it's not actually spam, was generated by a LLM. I won't explain HOW I know that, but the level of confidence of that fact, is more than 100%. Since you are a moderator, you know the content was generated by a LLM, I strongly disagree that the content wasn't spam or a spam seed. In the end it does not matter, content that was not helpful, was flagged and properly deleted. The user was going to be destroyed regardless if it was deleted as spam or for submitting low quality ChatGPT junk. | |
| Mar 27 at 23:15 | comment | added | Ramhound | @Makyen - The content is in the screenshot absolutely is spam, the content is unacceptably low quality, no doubt attempting to setup a question that can be "answered" with content that will contain an advertisement. It's what we call a spam seed. | |
| Mar 19 at 18:41 | comment | added | user1482432 |
@Makyen This isn't actually spam False. this isn't that False. most spam appears to be posted by humans False.
|
|
| Mar 18 at 17:00 | history | edited | user1482432 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
added 194 characters in body
|
| Mar 17 at 23:51 | comment | added | Makyen | While a captcha might help, it's not going to be all that effective, as most spam appears to be posted by humans. There is a portion of spam that's posted by actual bots. A CAPTCHA might help in those cases, unless the bot just uses a CAPTCHA-solving service. The company's response is a trade-off vs how difficult the company wants to make posting by legitimate users. Given that there are already complaints about too many CAPTCHAs, there's definitely a limit as to how much people will accept prior to just leaving. I know I've recently left other sites due to too much time spent on CAPTCHAs. | |
| Mar 17 at 23:44 | comment | added | Makyen | This isn't actually spam, as it does no advertising. AI generated spam is a quite specific thing, which is actual spam that uses AI generated content to help mask that it's spam. While that type of spam is on the rise, this isn't that. If you think something is AI generated content, then you should be raising an "in need of moderator intervention" flag. This might have been intended to get people to look at the user's profile, but there's nothing specific to indicate that and the content which was in the profile is gone now that the profile has been deleted or destroyed. | |
| Mar 17 at 22:49 | history | edited | Robotnik | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
inline image; add relevant tags, minor formatting changes to body
|
| Mar 17 at 10:03 | history | became hot meta post | |||
| Mar 15 at 13:22 | answer | added | Journeyman GeekMod | timeline score: 9 | |
| Mar 15 at 13:19 | history | edited | user1482432 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
added 61 characters in body
|
| Mar 15 at 12:58 | history | edited | user1482432 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
edited title
|
| Mar 15 at 12:47 | history | edited | user1482432 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
added 130 characters in body
|
| Mar 15 at 12:40 | history | asked | user1482432 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |