There has recently been a wave of AI-generated accounts signing up pretending to be real people.
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Unfortunately I read that was part of the problem. Existing bot accounts were inviting a lot more bot accounts. At least currently when someone is invited it bypasses some of the normal checks on new users. I also read that invites have been turned off on a lot of servers to help stop this.
Double check what I am saying here though.
We disabled them on our instance because they were bypassing the normal approval process for signups.
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@FediTips Pff.. it's a lot
Tips for mods/admins:
- Look for weird email TLDs
- Displayname mostly contains: "Firstname Lastname Emoji"
- Look for invited and go upchain to ban them all
- Check IP and ban where needed
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@ingonymous @stux @FediTips I thought that before but now I disagree:
You can manually forbid subscription from some ISP entire networks (we banned all of Vietnam and Nigeria on Piaille)
Or more subtle, require validation for some email domains (we did that for outlook.com emails for a few weeks, very efficient)
So Mastodon have quite good tooling for manual but massive moderation -
There has recently been a wave of AI-generated accounts signing up pretending to be real people.
Server admins are trying to ban them as quickly as they are discovered, and some servers have temporarily closed sign-ups while they deal with it.
If you spot an account you think might be AI-generated, click ⋯ on one of the account's posts and select "report". Remember to give your reason for reporting, so that the admin knows what to look for.
@FediTips what should we look for?
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There has recently been a wave of AI-generated accounts signing up pretending to be real people.
Server admins are trying to ban them as quickly as they are discovered, and some servers have temporarily closed sign-ups while they deal with it.
If you spot an account you think might be AI-generated, click ⋯ on one of the account's posts and select "report". Remember to give your reason for reporting, so that the admin knows what to look for.
p.s. Mastodon admins may want to switch off invitations entirely as the AI signups seem to be exploiting the invitation system. The setting for user invitations is a bit hidden but you can find it with this guide:
https://fedi.tips/inviting-people-onto-mastodon-and-the-fediverse/#AdminInvites
