I wonder if the owners of the small neglected mastodon instances that have been used to send huge quantities of spam are going to be shocked when they see their February cloud computing bills. #spamming
@admin Hmm, interesting. He joined on January 21st with a reason: ”I want to join the greate community and to chat with other members and to contribute to the community” and I suspended him February 6th because of spam. So he could have not caused further spam from my server because I do not have open registration. But I may be a target because of this.
Remember #Patreon set up new on-by-default sharing of your account information with every other Patreon user (and maybe the world)? Remember people posting how to turn it off, because they were using confusing language/dark patterns to try to #trick you into oversharing?
I got the "welcome to the new Patreon" today, and ... they've turned the "Community Profile" setting back on after I deliberately turned it off.
"We gotta get our #engagement numbers up somehow, so the #VCs will give us more #money and maybe help us get to our #IPO, so we can retire #rich".
Ya, by #spamming your users? Jebus, don't they have at least one #adult in the room to ride herd on the ninny #MBAs that make these kinds of #stupid decisions?
"Europa schafft sichere Regeln für freies und sicheres Surfen im Netz. Auch Plattformbetreiber müssen Verantwortung bei Beleidigungen, Gewaltaufrufen & Identitätsmissbrauch übernehmen. Mit der @BNetzA setzen wir Verpflichtungen durch, auch in Deutschland", so Volker Wissing #DSA.
#AI#GenerativeAI#Spam#Spamming: "The Enlightened Mindset's formula for success is one that other would-be AI spammers may well follow. From where we're sitting, it looks like someone bought the since-abandoned URL of a formerly reputable website — which gave the site some decent search juice from the get-go — and then filled that URL with thousands of pages of misinformation-laden AI-generated content for scale.
The internet is already full of spam, said Binns, "and [generative AI] is just going to supercharge that."
It underscores again that generative AI is very good at making things up, and very good at delivering those hallucinations confidently. And if you've had any kind of digital presence in the past few decades, generative AI systems are probably trained on you; somewhere, on a synthetic content-packed site like Enlightened Mindset or by someone's simple misuse of programs like ChatGPT and Bard, your control over your digital self might be slipping further away."