A quote from Aphyr

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A quote from Aphyr

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Kyle Kingsbury, writing on his site Aphyr, suspects that Market Research Future or a subcontractor is running an automated spam campaign that uses a Large Language Model to evaluate Mastodon instances, submit plausible account applications, and post generated content linking to Market Research Future reports. He says he does not know how to run a community forum in this environment. He states he lacks the time and emotional energy to screen out regular LLM-driven attacks, and that a wrong moderation decision costs a real person their connection to a niche community.

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Most think that LLMs would use carefully built personas to create credible spam. As the source article mentions, they are just used as a cost-effective way for introducing the good old cheap spam