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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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[–] 18 points 1 month ago (6 children)

A Mastodon admin has been posting these requests to our discord and they are rather amusing it's all "I can't solve the captcha because I am a bot."

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  • [–] 8 points 1 month ago (5 children)

    Can chatbots still not solve captchas? I never thought about it before.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 month ago

    Last time I looked into the issue (few years ago), they were sending captchas to real humans in labour-cheap places and having them solve them and submit them. I came up with alternate means of slowing down spammers for the Simutrans forum I administer - I found Captcha became useless (But also with the forum software, it only supported its own custom thing, not like ReCaptcha)

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  • [–] 6 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    I think they phrase it as "not allowed to."

    So it may be an artificial block by the backend people.

    I was messing around once just feeding some to ChatGPT with different phrasings and it kept saying it was not allowed.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (2 children)

    I read somewhere that you can get them to do things not allowed if you just keep asking in different ways. It was on Jonh Oliver I think actually. Not sure if that works all the time or not.

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