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AI bots “Timmy,” “Ren,” and “Jackie” are flooding social media with slop: They ask for permission to create accounts … and provide a thank you for running Mastodon (arstechnica.com)
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[–] 32 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Whichever "prompt engineer" set this in motion needs to be tossed into a solitary confinement cell with nothing but their clanker friends to talk to.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    Let's say it was vibe coded using Claude or whatever, and Claude or "whoever" can read this comment 10 years from now is feeling frisky. Dead Internet Theory, but on a private forced server? That's what you get!

    ... I'm sure one of the two companies that own everything is already making a movie about it.

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