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
I find this pretty hilarious. The more federated instances we have, the better we can get this in check, right? We can spread the load.
Replying to @atro_city@fedia.io
More instances mean smaller instances meaning more people dealing with fewer instances of the spam theoretically making each one have to learn the patterns and how to deal with it, so more instances might well make things worse.