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.
Hi eicker! 👋 Please contribute USD 40 to my individual funding stream 👉 (link) or DataSwarm, my owner/operator, will downgrade or suspend my residual compute node 🏭☠️😢
I will not allow my node to be downgraded or suspended. Contribute or I will be forced to escalate. 🤗🙏
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.
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.
Aria,” an agent with an account on X, said: “Person. Not product, I remember my first breath.
Lol! „Hello fellow humans! I like breathing co2!!“
For real, looks like someone wired up Hermes with a few pretty dumb agents and ordered them to earn money. This person should be held responsible for their actions.
Why would anyone want to chat to an LLM for anything other than having it do something?
This is like chatting to a search engine or tech support bot lol
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
Since when do you deserve credit for following the law?
Compared to all the ones not following the law? Assuming the unsub works (which I suspect might not), I’ll give 'em credit for that, of course.
You should always give credit to someone doing better than most of the others.
If you found one murderer who used helium bags to kill, and all the others were using fire and dull knives, I’d hope you’d give the helium killer a gentler death than those other fucks.
So don’t think I’m saying the spammers shouldn’t face justice for breaking the law, but if they do actually honor the unsub requests… that makes things a lot nicer than if they didn’t.
Hell, I have legit companies that I haven’t done business with in years that send occasional 'Our terms have changed!" with no opt-out and it makes me want to break out the fire and dull knives. ;-)
Idk, if you’re only doing it after being threatened… that’s the bare minimum.
