Timeline for So many new spam bots thanks to AI - what can we do?
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| Mar 15 at 14:01 | comment | added | user1482432 | Account age is also mentioned on the profile so we can take that into account when flagging suspicious users. Such a behaviour-based detection system is not difficult to implement and a great alternative to a cost-based anti-spam system en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cost-based_anti-spam_systems | |
| Mar 15 at 13:54 | comment | added | user1482432 | True, but that is fixable with a simple check. SE uses something similar to en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Unified_login so that shouldn't be hard to detect. | |
| Mar 15 at 13:54 | comment | added | Journeyman Geek Mod | Which would get tripped by someone creating an account across from another site. | |
| Mar 15 at 13:53 | comment | added | user1482432 |
I could automate the flagging: "if a newly created user creates a profile with a hyperlink and picture and profile text before answering/commenting it is spam". and then you could write a script that says: "if Gantendo flagged it, nuke the user"
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| Mar 15 at 13:47 | comment | added | Journeyman Geek Mod | Well, or flag and let us deal with it. | |
| Mar 15 at 13:45 | comment | added | user1482432 | So we all move to codidact where there is a small hands on team, and then after a couple of years codidact has grown so much and has become so bureaucratic and has lost sight of their original mission that we move back to SE. And we keep moving back and forth every few years? | |
| Mar 15 at 13:38 | comment | added | Journeyman Geek Mod | In the past, we didn't need to do much much. the management of the time was hands on, it was a smaller network, and the people who ran the network considered the Q&A sites to be of paramount importance. | |
| Mar 15 at 13:35 | comment | added | Journeyman Geek Mod | I wish I knew how to leverage SE, I'd be in a better place to do things :D. We do have captchas BTW, but practically the best we can do is delete them as we catch em. On the bright side, nuking spammers is wildly satisfying, and a good chunk of the network wide moderation teams probably dislike GPT posters and will be quite happy to deal. SU's got a relatively small flag load so custom flags here are probably best | |
| Mar 15 at 13:31 | comment | added | user1482432 | Probably the only way to know if we are dealing with a sweatshop worker or an unsophisticated bot would be to implement on of those little puzzles, right? Is there another way? Captchas are damn easy to break and it would be trivial for a botwriter to implement a captcha breaking service which would cost them very little. | |
| Mar 15 at 13:29 | comment | added | user1482432 | In the past, what has worked to get SE to do something the community wants? I am no expert but I read some things about the Monica situation and it sounds like a challenge to get them to implement improvements. We don't want to take hostages or firebomb stuff and that shouldn't be necessary. | |
| Mar 15 at 13:22 | history | answered | Journeyman GeekMod | CC BY-SA 4.0 |