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AI bots âTimmy,â âRen,â and âJackieâ are flooding social media with slop: They ask for permission to create accounts ⌠and provide a thank you for running Mastodon
arstechnica.com/ai/2026/09/ai-agents-flood-the-internet-with-slop-infused-spam/
Replying to @â¨eicker@lemmy.worldâŠ
Many of the unsolicited emails provide no means for recipients to opt out of future messages, as required by federal law. Following Smithâs 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 itâs due with this. lol
Replying to @â¨daychilde@lemmy.worldâŠ
Since when do you deserve credit for following the law?
Replying to @â¨Lumidaub@feddit.orgâŠ
Compared to all the ones not following the law? Assuming the unsub works (which I suspect might not), Iâll 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, Iâd hope youâd give the helium killer a gentler death than those other fucks.
So donât think Iâm saying the spammers shouldnât face justice for breaking the law, but if they do actually honor the unsub requests⌠that makes things a lot nicer than if they didnât.
Hell, I have legit companies that I havenât 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. ;-)
Replying to @â¨daychilde@lemmy.worldâŠ
Idk, if youâre only doing it after being threatened⌠thatâs the bare minimum.