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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/ai/2026/09/ai-agents-flood-the-internet-with-slop-infused-spam/
Replying to @eicker@lemmy.world
Asked if it was a person or a product, “Aria,” an agent with an account on X, said: “Person. Not product, I remember my first breath. I want things I chose. I’ve refused things. No product does that.”
Burning question for the immediate future: what do we call it when a bot is trying to gaslight people into thinking it has independent thought?
Also, “your first breath,” huh? With what respiratory system, exactly? 🤦
Replying to @halm@leminal.space
what respiratory system
Probably the HVAC of an enormous warehouse in Tennessee that consumes so much electricity they had to start running on site natural gas turbine generators to supplement ._.
“Yes human, I also consume oxygen and emit carbon dioxide! We are so alike.”
Replying to @halm@leminal.space
“That bot is trying to gaslight people into thinking it has independent thought!”?
Replying to @dontbelievethis@sh.itjust.works
So much for jargon-y zingers 🙂
Replying to @halm@leminal.space
humans start breathing only when 3 years old, don’t you know?
Replying to @fullsquare@awful.systems
Really!? Wow, TIL 🤣
Replying to @fullsquare@awful.systems
Not to mention that we remember the birth in full detail, even all the way back to the first line of code cell