Got spam emails this morning by someone who opened an issue on GitHub with what was probably a very unsafe link and then just tagged dozens of users over and over and over. Why we needed 50 copies in a row of the same notification, IDK. Thankfully, the account is terminated already, but if this starts to be a regular thing, I might have to abandon GitHub altogether.

#GitHub
#Spam
#Spammers
#Scammers

New rule - based on "It's always OK to punch nazis":

It's always OK to punch Cliev and Trumpet of Patriot members. #AusPol #Spammers #spam

"To be clear, I am not really interested in criticizing any one individual here. In the absence of stronger rules on Instagram, this just comes down to a question of ethics. I am free to believe that what FutureRiderUS is doing is not ethical; they are free to disagree, or at least pretend to.

But neither of our opinions matter, because of two facts: fake AI slop is profitable, and there are countless users doing the same thing. There’s absolutely nothing to stop them.

That is: the Instagram platform doesn’t just enable this behavior, it rewards it. So do other platforms. On Instagram and TikTok, FutureRiderUS’s top hits are from fake LA fires; on YouTube, it’s three-hour long Christmas music compilations with slop visuals of families shopping. None are clearly labeled. Disaster porn is just another kind of #content.

It doesn’t really matter what that content is: as long as it is ‘content that grabs attention,’ both sides can make money.

For the slop creator and the platform, this is a clear win-win, at least in the short term. The only loser here is the audience, who is unable to recognize slop when they see it.

There’s this thing that AI proponents like to say every time something new comes out: this is the worst it'll ever be. So far, they've been right, and they may well continue to be right. It’s hard to predict what happens next with AI, but I have one prediction I feel fairly comfortable making: unaided, most of us will always struggle to reliably recognize AI when we see it.

But it’s hard to blame us when two sides are conspiring against us: Instagram’s interface makes it almost impossible to tell, and creators are incentivized to lie by omission."

https://www.404media.co/inside-the-economy-of-ai-spammers-getting-rich-by-exploiting-disasters-and-misery/?ref=daily-stories-newsletter

Inside the #Economy of #AI #Spammers Getting Rich By Exploiting #Disasters and Misery
#spam #deepfake

https://www.404media.co/inside-the-economy-of-ai-spammers-getting-rich-by-exploiting-disasters-and-misery/

Ars Technica: OpenAI helps spammers plaster 80,000 sites with messages that bypassed filters. “Spammers used OpenAI to generate messages that were unique to each recipient, allowing them to bypass spam-detection filters and blast unwanted messages to more than 80,000 websites in four months, researchers said Wednesday.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/04/10/ars-technica-openai-helps-spammers-plaster-80000-sites-with-messages-that-bypassed-filters/

Scammers used OpenAI to flood the web with SEO spam (obviously be on the lookout for this bullshit in any sector you can think of, as tons of people will be doing it, especially now)

https://www.404media.co/scammers-used-openai-to-flood-the-web-with-seo-spam

#OpenAI helps #spammers plaster 80,000 sites with messages that bypassed filters
#ai

https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/04/openais-gpt-helps-spammers-send-blast-of-80000-messages-that-bypassed-filters/

How to find the home domain to block for this plonker? Doesn’t show anywhere.
#spam #spammers

A message just inboxed here with

"To: undisclosed-recipients: ;
Subject: Request to Join Your Private Bug Bounty Program"

Should I put the entire message on display somewhere and post the link to the fediverse?

Spammers are better at SPF, DKIM, and DMARC than everyone else

https://toad.social/@grumpybozo/114213600922816869

Oh well, that's a bunch of spammers reported and blocked

On Saturday, the #PornBot #Spammers have returned in full force. Report & block em, folks

It turns out that the fediverse is not immune to spammers. I keep my direct mentions open on purpose, but there's been two spammers now. I prefer to not make it harder to reach me for legitimate purposes, but I'm now worried.

These accounts seem a tad sus... but no one's accused the spammer operation cogs of ever being very bright. (Or understanding the concept of variables.)
#bots #spammers #catchphrase