Comment by Tevesh_CKP on 05/07/2023 at 18:02 UTC

50 upvotes, 4 direct replies (showing 4)

View submission: Announcing Mod Insights and rule management on iOS and Android

When will you deal with the onslaught of ChatGPT bots?

What idiot thought it would be a good idea that people can forgo making an account and instead have a random username generated for them? Will we be able to bar such an obvious oversight?

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Comment by redalastor at 06/07/2023 at 00:49 UTC

10 upvotes, 1 direct replies

When will you deal with the onslaught of ChatGPT bots?

Also, when will they stop introducing their own ChatGPT bots and pretending they are users?

Comment by LoveOfProfit at 05/07/2023 at 18:45 UTC

38 upvotes, 1 direct replies

I imagine in the same idiot(s) focused on juicing user counts before a possible IPO.

Comment by MustacheEmperor at 06/07/2023 at 01:59 UTC

7 upvotes, 1 direct replies

This one’s easy. Obvious GPT bots will get cleaned up for free by the mods who already clean up human misbehavior for free. Non obvious GPT bots will be indistinguishable to Wall Street from human popularity, ergo a net benefit.

Comment by VexingRaven at 06/07/2023 at 00:19 UTC

6 upvotes, 1 direct replies

a good idea that people can forgo making an account and instead have a random username generated for them?

Do you genuinely think that having to create a username is a barrier to entry for spammers? Spammers were auto-generating names long before that feature existed. It takes like 2 minutes to create a halfway-passable random name generator.