Well, on the plus side, all the vast number of pages of AI slop you search for on topics nowadays sound the same. So you can quickly move on to a page written by humans.
"You're interested in learning more about X? Well, it's a fascinating topic. Here, we'll talk about all the ways you can do X! The history of X is fascinating..." bleah bleah bleah
This month's editorial looks at the possible ethics issues that could come with introducing a reliable detector to the filtering process of a submissions system. Curious what people think. https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/clarke_05_24/
@clarkesworld A few thoughts: You are dealing with a special kind of spam here, call it slop spam. To catch a spammer, remember they are lazy people. They don't fake meta data well, or don't even bother.
Look at repetitive patterns in IP addresses or user agents of the submitting Browser.
don't accept submissions from outdated software, like a ten year old firefox.
don't accept submissions by people that don't bother to hide they are using curl or wget. #spam#slop#ai 1/3
@clarkesworld 2. Validate the author's email address, and check if it exists and is answerable. There are online services dealing with this. Don't accept submissions using disposable email addresses. Consider rejecting submissions from freemail services or services with a bad security record. Yes, this includes yahoo for example. #spam#slop#ai 2/3
@clarkesworld 3. The author's postal address should exist. Validation is more expensive than email address validation, but surprisingly accurate in developed countries. The same goes for the phone number. Look for patterns.
4. Give captchas a try on your submissions page, if you haven't already. #spam#slop#ai 3/3
"A few years back, a writer in a developing country started doing contract work for a company called AdVon Commerce, getting a few pennies per word to write online product reviews.
But the writer — who like other AdVon sources interviewed for this story spoke on condition of anonymity — recalls that the gig's responsibilities soon shifted. Instead of writing, they were now tasked with polishing drafts generated using an AI system the company was developing, internally dubbed MEL."
So my new #joke format is this: An icosahedron goes up to a dodecahedron and says "Ay gurl, you wanna come over to my place and roll a 20? (or insert whatever #rizz you like, the joke's really just an excuse to make up comical rizz)" and then the dodecahedron says "uh...I think we should keep things platonic."
Anyhoo, here's bonus #ai#slop in which 1st #Bing search result for platonic solids includes...two cones that are not platonic solids, and neither of our two lovers #geometry#internet