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

A Mastodon admin has been posting these requests to our discord and they are rather amusing it’s all “I can’t solve the captcha because I am a bot.”

Can chatbots still not solve captchas? I never thought about it before.

I think they phrase it as “not allowed to.”

So it may be an artificial block by the backend people.

I was messing around once just feeding some to ChatGPT with different phrasings and it kept saying it was not allowed.

I read somewhere that you can get them to do things not allowed if you just keep asking in different ways. It was on Jonh Oliver I think actually. Not sure if that works all the time or not.