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Getting a lot of follows from bot accounts. I guess this is where things are at here.
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MadeInDex
MadeInDex
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They still haven't replied to the #botnet ticket on #GitHub 🤷
https://mastodon.social/@madeindex/113282846334303818

I was hoping they had addressed the issue when it was removed.

MadeInDex

2024-10-10 11:17:36


Created a #Github ticket for the #Mastodon #development team to make them aware of the #botnet issue:
https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/32384


Bot prevention methods & reports are not sufficient for AI botnets / content · Issue #32384 · mastodon/mastodon

Pitch We recently discovered a sophisticated AI botnet operating on Mastodon.social. The main similarity of the accounts was that they advertised the same 2 programs and followed profiles that were...
GitHub
#github #botnet
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Jack Yan (甄爵恩)
Jack Yan (甄爵恩)
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@madeindex I truly hope they solve it, because Facebook utterly failed on this. They would take down most of the ones I reported in the early to mid-2010s, but from around 2016, they would all be left intact.
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