This month's editorial looks at the possible ethics issues that could come with introducing a reliable detector to the filtering process of a submissions system. Curious what people think. https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/clarke_05_24/
@clarkesworld A few thoughts: You are dealing with a special kind of spam here, call it slop spam. To catch a spammer, remember they are lazy people. They don't fake meta data well, or don't even bother.
Look at repetitive patterns in IP addresses or user agents of the submitting Browser.
don't accept submissions from outdated software, like a ten year old firefox.
don't accept submissions by people that don't bother to hide they are using curl or wget. #spam#slop#ai 1/3
@clarkesworld 2. Validate the author's email address, and check if it exists and is answerable. There are online services dealing with this. Don't accept submissions using disposable email addresses. Consider rejecting submissions from freemail services or services with a bad security record. Yes, this includes yahoo for example. #spam#slop#ai 2/3
@clarkesworld 3. The author's postal address should exist. Validation is more expensive than email address validation, but surprisingly accurate in developed countries. The same goes for the phone number. Look for patterns.
4. Give captchas a try on your submissions page, if you haven't already. #spam#slop#ai 3/3
Let's talk briefly about what a tire-fire #Wyze is and why you shouldn't buy from them.
I attempted to order COVID tests from them near the start of the pandemic. They sold more than they had, I never received the tests I ordered, and cancelling the order was a nightmare.
But then they started spamming me.
In 2022 I unsubscribed from their #spam.
1/2
In February 2024 I asked them to delete my #Wyze account (created only to order the COVID tests).
They just spammed me again.
When I click the unsub link, the page it takes me to claims I'm already unsubscribed.
In addition to all this you're probably aware they've had numerous security and privacy issues with their products.
You really, really shouldn't patronize this company. #spam#privacy#security
#AI#GenerativeAI#Spam#Facebook#SocialMedia: "Over the last few months, many have proposed that the AI spam taking over Facebook is a great example of the “Dead Internet Theory,” which posits that large portions of the internet are made up of bots talking to bots, filtered through the lens of recommendation and engagement algorithms. Facebook is undeniably cooked, a decaying, depressing hall of horrors full of viral AI-generated content that seemingly gets worse every day.
But I do not think Facebook is the dead internet. Instead, I think it is something worse. Facebook is the zombie internet, where a mix of bots, humans, and accounts that were once humans but aren’t anymore mix together to form a disastrous website where there is little social connection at all.
I have spent more time than anyone I know endlessly scrolling through AI spam on Facebook. I have watched the evolution of Facebook’s AI spam go from slightly uncanny modifications of real images to the completely bizarre and obviously fake. I have done this from my own Facebook account, which I have had since 2005, as well as from two burner accounts I created specifically to track how AI-generated content is recommended on the platform and to see whether Facebook would put AI-generated images into my feed organically. I now use Facebook exclusively to see what kinds of bizarre AI content is going viral, and to attempt to figure out who is making it, why they are making it, and who is interacting with it."
My employer's website: “We're denormalizing the biostatic conglomeration of cromulent anaglyphs for just-in-time metempsychosis.”
Recruiter's unsolicited email to me: "Angus -- love how you're denormalizing the biostatic conglomeration of cromulent anaglyphs for just-in-time metempsychosis! At SpamCo, we specialize in finding top-tier talent …”
Me: Very authentic opening, sir, yes, you have absolutely persuaded me that I wish to do business with you.
Hab grad ne Mail bekommen von
Silvana Tenreyro <julian@centrored.com>, mit dem Titel "(Anspruchs)." und Inhalt:
Wir haben einen nicht eingeforderten Betrag von 4.000.000,00 £, der mit Ihren Namen verknüpft ist. Bitte senden Sie Ihre vollständigen Namen an meine E-Mail-Adresse: (silvanatenreyrompc@hotmail.com) für weitere Informationen im Falle eines dringenden Anspruchs.
Gmail crypto spam is a real problem lately. Look at all this calendar/ics #spam received from #gmail accounts today. Maybe google aren't interested in stopping it.
No, Senator Bennet, I didn't fucking sign up for or agree to you sending me text messages, and fuck you for buying a list and spamming everyone on it with texts falsely claiming they signed up.
I fucking hate these fucking politicians fucking lying and fucking spamming people without their consent.
In case you didn't notice, this is something I feel strongly about. #spam#privacy#politics#USPol#COPol
「 The prevalence of bot traffic was observed across all sectors, with Gaming (57.2%) witnessing the most significant proportion of bad bot traffic. Simultaneously, Retail (24.4%), Travel (20.7%), and Financial Services (15.7%) experienced the highest volume of bot attacks 」
I'm curently receiving up to 100 spam a day lately and I've come to the conclusion that sending abuse reports via #spamcop doesn't work; nobody actions the emails (observing same IP addresses sending spam over a long period despite reporting abuse via spamcop)
But...using spamcop to analyse the #spam is useful, since it's very good at providing the sender IP and ISP. I then do a whois on the IP and often find there's a website to report the abuse to instead. I've had better results this way.
Aktuell laufen wieder Spamwellen durchs Land. Eine bot einen angeblichen Schweizer #Bitcoin-ETF an, mit zuverlässiger Firma und offizieller Zulassung dahinter. Das wäre doch das ideale Investment für klamme Kassen!
Doch schon nach wenigen Klicks war klar: Da stimmt ganz vieles nicht.
received 50 #spam so far today. so much for the new DKIM effort that's supposed to reduce spam. Today's spam count is about 500% increase on the usual amount. About half of it was PDF phishing from rogue gmail accounts. It had exactly the same title and content, yet google seem to consider it dealt with if it goes to your spam folder. they really could do a lot better
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After a full year of not thinking about printers, the best printer is still whatever random Brother laser printer that’s on sale.