Ancestors

Written by blakestacey@awful.systems on 2025-01-27 at 04:22

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 2nd February 2025

https://awful.systems/post/3382551

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Written by rook@awful.systems on 2025-01-28 at 08:33

Hey, did you know of you own an old forum full of interesting posts from back in the day when humans wrote stuff, you can just attach ai bots to dead accounts and have them post backdated slop for, uh, reasons?

hallofdreams.org/posts/physicsforums/

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Toot

Written by gerikson@awful.systems on 2025-01-28 at 13:37

this was mentioned in last week’s thread

what I don’t get is why the admins chose to both backdate the entries and re-use poster’s handles. If they’d just tried to “close” open questions using GenAI with the current date and a robot user it would still be shit but not quite as deceptive

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Descendants

Written by rook@awful.systems on 2025-01-28 at 13:44

The whole thing is just weirdly incompetent. Maybe they just had everything configured wrong and accidentally deployed sone throwaway tests to production? I could almost see it as a way to poison scrapers, given that there are some odd visibility settings on the slop posts, though the owner’s shiftiness and dubious explanations suggest it wasn’t anything so worthy.

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