Imo, this is most likely AI. Facebook and Instagram both have incredibly sophisticated spam preventative measures. These companies are likely using artificial intelligence to generate brand new and highly intelligent scripts that continuously change to evade spam detection tools. Same thing happened on Twitter (You can look at my post history for an example). There was a bot spamming on Twitter and it had run out of credits for GPT resulting in the AI instructions to start being spit out instead of the fake messages it was supposed to produce.
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nightwatch_admin@feddit.nl 2 months ago
Not sure if this is AI or some dumb and aggressive script.
Buttflapper@lemmy.world 2 months ago
catloaf@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Well the name checks out, at least. You’re ascribing far too much capability to spammers. And that Twitter thing was an obvious fake.
Buttflapper@lemmy.world 2 months ago
No, actually, I did my own research on it
npr.org/…/ai-spam-images-facebook-linkedin-thread…
When researchers at Georgetown and Stanford universities investigated more than 100 Facebook pages that routinely post AI content — sometimes dozens of times a day — they found that many are engaging in scams and spam.
Other people have found the same conclusion that I have
hydroptic@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
Yeah I doubt those particular comments have anything to do with “AI”. It just seems fashionable to blame AI for absolutely everything nowadays