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Usenet, BB forums and IRC already had bot spam before 2005 ended. What even is the old internet? 1995?
by nurettin 11mo ago
Usenet, BB forums and IRC already had bot spam before 2005 ended. What even is the old internet? 1995?
- NitpickLawyer 11mo agoEh, to be fair, I haven't seen a viagra spam message since forever. Those things have become easier to filter. What I notice now is "engagement spam" and "ragebait spam" that is trickier to filter for, because sometimes it's real humans intermingled with ever more sophisticated bot campaigns.
- johnisgood 11mo agoOut of curiosity I checked Facebook. It is mostly "ragebait" posts. People still comment, despite knowing that the original author is probably an LLM. :P They just want to voice their opinions or virtue signalling. It has never changed.