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PSA: Bots and Scammers are using ChatGPT or Similar Text AI

Discussion in 'PriusChat Website Questions' started by Tideland Prius, Jan 2, 2024.

  1. Tideland Prius

    Tideland Prius Moderator of the North
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    Hey guys,

    Just letting you know that it appears there are people (scammers) that are using ChatGPT to reply to posts. If there are any suspicious posts such as those that use English structures that isn't typical of casual conversation, similar replies in all or some of their posts or robotic sounding sentence structures, please report them and we'll take a look to see if they are bots or if they're actually human.

    Thanks for keeping PriusChat safe and spam-free.

    - PriusChat Moderating Team


    Examples:

    vs.

    Another example:
     
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  2. bisco

    bisco cookie crumbler

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    I’m striking certainly and challenging from my priuschat lexicon starting today
     
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  3. Mendel Leisk

    Mendel Leisk EGR Fanatic

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    I can certainly help you with that. Now if I may ask…
     
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  4. Tideland Prius

    Tideland Prius Moderator of the North
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    It seems you're facing a challenging situation with spambots...
     
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    What are the endgames of these bots? I don't see how they could monetize from those replies. Maybe build some credibility before doing the actual monetisation?
     
    #5 sylvaing, Jan 2, 2024
  6. Trollbait

    Trollbait It's a D&D thing

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    Your guess is likely correct.
    Many sites have posting limits before being able to add links and such to posts. In addition to adding credibility to accounts, they are harder to spot as spam before hitting that limit.
     
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  7. Tideland Prius

    Tideland Prius Moderator of the North
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    Yup. Build credit and then PM/DM individual members or reply to ads in the classified section and get personal info that way.
     
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  8. Trollbait

    Trollbait It's a D&D thing

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    Jokes on them then if the messenging system still whacked here.
     
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  9. Tideland Prius

    Tideland Prius Moderator of the North
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    Don’t tell them that lol.
     
    #9 Tideland Prius, Jan 3, 2024
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