Is Owbid Catob an AI Agent Sent to Terrorize Lemmy?
The current whack-a-mole spam user that I keep having to block due to spamming awful AI imagery in many places is Owbid Catob. Is there any way that admins of communities can block this person's IP addresses so that they have a harder time posting anything? I will keep blocking the new accounts as they pop up, but I'm getting so tired of this spammer.
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Honestly it seems that they are exposing a pretty big vulnerability in the current lemmy setup. What's to stop someone from effectively DDOSing an instance by just posting a shitload of trash to a bunch of communities via a few dozen bot accounts? If this one guy can cause this much of an issue, I'd hate to see what would happen if some dipshit with a computer science background decided to take out a grudge. Not that that's happened at all recently.
That's a good point. These AI tools do make this nonsense more broadly available to folks who haven't a degree.
But also, two finger salute to that bastard Admiral Tesseract.
While there's no real solution yet, please don't engage with him.
Agreed, just block the account and move on. But I was left wondering after today's outburst if this is a token generated hostile action.
An interesting consideration, considering he doesn't seem to tire.
Your must be new here. This happens a lot. Just block and ignore them and they'll eventually tire themselves out.
Mr. Four Month Old Account telling me I'm new here.
This is like my third account. I moved here when Reddit fucked their API up.
Young child.
Calling people children is pathetic
Commenting with an exceedingly narrow summary of it is even more pathetic. It wasn't ad hominem, and I apologize for not making that clear. People who live in the real world use that sort of talk as an endearing joke about naivety.
Posts like these are what he craves.
Don't engage, don't comment, don't make threads about it, ignore.
I don't think it is a person.
Im starting to think he actually wasnt a tv extra from ireland...
Who?
Don't feed the troll. That includes posts like this.
As I said in the post, I don't see any evidence to suggest that it is a person/troll. Its specific behaviors and actions are so narrowly scoped that it seems to be an AI agent "programmed" for establishing the bounds of a DDoS test. The periods of very intense rates of account creation to post incoherent text with AI imagery to a narrow set of communities seems to indicate token driven hostile action. Some of the comments adding to the discussion rather than dismissing the post as "feeding the troll" have been helpful.
Bruh. I’ve seen his other social profiles. If this is an AI, then it’s fucked up whatever the hell it is
Nevertheless, blocking and moving on is the only real solution for the general user. They're not worth wasting brain-space on.
I agree with blocking, but discouraging discussion about topics that affect users is where I'll respectfully disagree with you.
You do you, bro, but I won't be engaging any further.
Same.
A cease and desist letter
Except it'd have to be from every separate instance?