posted in Fediverse
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
Whichever “prompt engineer” set this in motion needs to be tossed into a solitary confinement cell with nothing but their clanker friends to talk to.
Replying to @betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world
careful, they might like it
Replying to @fullsquare@awful.systems
Fine with me if it keeps them from inflicting it on the rest of us. They can have their shitty Matrix.