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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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[-] bedwyr@piefed.ca 8 points 1 day ago

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

[-] daychilde@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day 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)

[-] AmyAye@nord.pub 6 points 1 day ago

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.

[-] bedwyr@piefed.ca 1 points 23 hours ago

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.