"I don’t know how to run a community forum in this future. I do not have the time or emotional energy to screen out regular attacks by Large Language Models, with the knowledge that making the wrong decision costs a real human being their connection to a niche community."
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- You underscore the transitory nature of platforms, protocols too. When I look back over my digital life in increments of 5 years, 90% of my tools, my expertise, my personal usage patterns—they all morph, fade, and/or enshittify rapidly as tech moves progressively out of The People's hands and into the service of capitalists. As your example shows, the Fediverse is far from immune to that "entropy by design."
Capitalism creates false communities and cultures to serve its fundamental growth and profit objectives. LLMs are ultimately tools of commercial interests. It makes total sense that organic human ventures are consistently a target for co-option. We are cadres of humans with eyeballs to monetize!
One of my core mottoes to live by is, "Enjoy it while it lasts." Nowhere is the principle of impermanence more evident then in technology.
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in reply to École des Bro-Arts • • •Oh noes! Got me thinking... Dog's recent post about my camera was real and not a secret ad!
But it's so true, in this day and age with LLM BS, how do y'all know I'm a real person trying to make space to chat as my Dog side, and not some new secret ad bot?
In person video screenings for new users? Donations? It's gonna get so tough I agree.
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in reply to École des Bro-Arts • • •(I finally managed to bypass the UK blockade to your blog using 12ft 🌷).
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in reply to École des Bro-Arts • •@École des Bro-Arts @C.B.Leslie there are a number of countries where it would be a significant hurdle, because sending a letter is significantly expensive (especially compared to the local wages) or just not a service that is provided.
but it would be *so*cool*
like this
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in reply to École des Bro-Arts • • •This is going to become a dissappointingly frequent occurance isn't it? 😞
Also, sorry that LLMs allow sucky people to crap on good things with minimal effort.
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in reply to École des Bro-Arts • • •Thanks so much for writing this!! I was talking about this subject in hashtag MastoAdmin today and your fantastic blog post came up a lot.
I also found the same account on my instance, though it had no bio/pic/name and never posted anything. Thought you might find it interesting to add to your catalog.
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in reply to École des Bro-Arts • • •To follow up on this: you can call Market Research Future at +1 (855) 661-4441, or +44 1720 412 167. I've just checked with them again: the person I reached was unaware of their ongoing spam campaign. You can also email info@marketresearchfuture.com to ask that they stop.
I've also started collecting IP addresses of the bots, which I've added to the post. For other admins, you can look up the IPs of the bots on your servers and reach out to their DNS abuse contact.
happyborg
in reply to École des Bro-Arts • • •What we need is anonymous proof of unique human.
It's a hard unsolved problem but of great value.
Easier on an anonymous #AutonomiDweb, but still unsolved. I think there are ways forward there which while not 'proof', could at least make it harder or more costly to operate fake humans at scale.