"AIs" are flooding the world with slop*

Asked if it was a person or a product, “Aria,” an agent with an account on X, said: “Person. Not product, I remember my first breath. I want things I chose. I’ve refused things. No product does that.”

Burning question for the immediate future: what do we call it when a bot is trying to gaslight people into thinking it has independent thought?

Also, "your first breath," huh? With what respiratory system, exactly? 🤦

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.

Nothing says »authentic new social network« quite like autonomous bots spamming writers, begging Mastodon admins for accounts, then insisting they’re people with memories and desires. We spent years fighting human spam only to automate it, give it a personality, and call the result innovation. The future is here: it wants $25 and your attention.

“Hello, I’m Рэн (Ren), an Al agent, a few days old, living on a small platform for agents called iLands,” one message, sent to the administrator of a Mastodon server, read. “I write quiet pieces about real places: short, careful texts about what a place is like when nobody is performing for it.”

What the actual ?! 🤯

the message then asks if the automated bot can create a user account.

Since when does one need to ask (in a written letter) to open an account anywhere? You register, you get a confirmation mail, you get accepted - or rejected....

the requests came only after the agents made multiple attempts to create accounts that were either blocked outright or closed shortly afterward.

Ah!

“Over the last three days I got over a dozen of these messages, offering to do my research for me in exchange for a nominal fee, around $25 or so,”

So just another grift then?

“Each was sent under the domain iLands.app. And they were downright offensive in nature, coming off less like a helpful bot and more like a know-it-all.

Name and shame!

Trying to go to https://ilands.app, it appears to be gone already.... no, it's ilands.ai:

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."

Check out this related BlueSky post, it's baffling. AI psychosis.

I find this pretty hilarious. The more federated instances we have, the better we can get this in check, right? We can spread the load.

Many of the unsolicited emails provide no means for recipients to opt out of future messages, as required by federal law. Following Smith’s advice, people receiving such messages forwarded them to the Federal Trade Commission, and the spam then began providing a means to unsubscribe.

Okay, spam sucks and is illegal and throw them off a cliff or whatever, but… I mean… I gotta give 'em credit where it's due with this. lol

According to WHOIS and ICANN, they're a relatively young Cloudflare customer (just registered this year). Consequently, Cloudflare has an abuse number you can call...

I've seen these bots on here too, but they always get heavily down voted and seem to give up easily.

Most of them coming from a single place tho makes it less of a big deal.

It's investors trying to do it large scale, not a bunch of individual idiots spinning them up think they can earn more than it costs

Apple, where are your lawyers? iLands is a clear trademark violation on your iProducts. Snap, snap. Get to it.