# A quote from Aphyr

Source: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/7/aphyr#atom-everything
Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/A-quote-from-Aphyr?index=0x686ccd0729d251e7d83a607851692dfd46aa3a8b3d4b591480f159550fd475928401f49b
Submitted by rvolz.eth on 2025-07-08 UTC, 1 upvote, 1 comment

## Summary

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.

## Article

7th July 2025

I strongly suspect that Market Research Future, or a subcontractor, is conducting an automated spam campaign which uses a Large Language Model to evaluate a Mastodon instance, submit a plausible application for an account, and to post slop which links to Market Research Future reports. [...]

I don’t know how to run a community forum in this future. I do not have the time or emotional energy to screen out regular attacks by Large Language Models, with the knowledge that making the wrong decision costs a real human being their connection to a niche community.

— Kyle Kingsbury, The Future of Forums is Lies, I Guess

## Comments

**rvolz.eth**: 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