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It's getting bad. Like 80+% of our instance applications are AI-generated now, and it's a huge waste of time to action them.

There seem to be several different models, and they all use throwaway email providers and VPNs.

We have one model that just "wants community" in a couple sentences, one that is looking for "tech-minded, open source friends", one that just spews word-salad, one that copies and pastes other people's bios, and at least a couple that try various plausible messages.

The better they get, the more resources it takes us to identify and reject them.

They're like fucking fruit flies.

Tinker ☀️ · 1w

nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpql3z6awrp9pkemqjyvs8txg2sq3zp9x25tx7zt8lgkne5y5pvg7asuzcy5p - I have no experience in this and so I'm asking very sincerely and am very curious, is there any meaningful CAPTCHA you could put up (or conversely, are you seeing these bot application...

Kayla Eilhart (cz) · 1w

nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpql3z6awrp9pkemqjyvs8txg2sq3zp9x25tx7zt8lgkne5y5pvg7asuzcy5p Same. Our Czech instance with just a few hundreds of active accounts is getting 3-6 such registration attempts per day and it's slowly growing over the last few months.

Number6 :syncthing: · 1w

nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpql3z6awrp9pkemqjyvs8txg2sq3zp9x25tx7zt8lgkne5y5pvg7asuzcy5p For 70 years people were saying, "Wouldn't it be cool if a machine passed the Turing test?" Now that it's happened, it turns out that a lot of *people* couldn't.

Chuck · 1w

nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpql3z6awrp9pkemqjyvs8txg2sq3zp9x25tx7zt8lgkne5y5pvg7asuzcy5p It truly sucks it does. As operations for a web search engine we started resorting to tracing where the packets came from. VPNs though show up a lot. The funny thing was you could just b...