wow these bots are next level markov chain

[bornach@fosstodon.org]

@liaizon
Is that the next sequel to "Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs"?

[liaizon@social.wake.st]

@mathias its interesting they are def agentic but they are not using any of the big models at all with this weird output

[lnkr@gts.burning.homes]

@liaizon @iftas I put together a list yesterday and send some reports https://pastebin.com/SYXufkaU but it's so much worse than that. Some of those don't have the bio and are pretty much dormant for the moment, barely detectable in any automatic manner that I could think of. After a few dozens of random reposts they tend to hatch into russian propaganda telegram channels reposters so I believe this time it's state-backed

[bornach@fosstodon.org]

@mathias @liaizon
Signs of late stage AI bubble when the free-tier LLM APIs have become so restricted that bots have to fall back on more primitive text generators?

[bentigorlich@wehavecookies.social]

@liaizon @iftas Will do. I noticed that they keep registering bots with a very weird and particular boost pattern...

[bentigorlich@wehavecookies.social]

@liaizon @iftas If any of these accounts are reported they get removed as soon as I see the notification. We're very actively moderating such accounts

[catgoat@meemu.org]

@liaizon another day, another freegan LMAO

[liaizon@social.wake.st]

hey @stux there are a ton on mstdn.social, maybe think about turning off open signups while you tackle this wave?

[iftas@mastodon.iftas.org]

@lnkr @liaizon it's this group: https://about.iftas.org/2025/10/05/coordinated-pro-russian-propaganda-network-targeting-activitypub-and-atproto-services/

[liaizon@social.wake.st]

hey @mwadmin yall getting hit with agentic bots signing up, maybe time to turn off automatic signups till you do some moderation of accounts using your infra?

[iftas@mastodon.iftas.org]

@liaizon you know what, sure, here's a subset of the list, minus any we know have been suspended or the server was taken offline - New means it hasn't been classified yet

IFTAS SW-ISAC TLP:Clear - Suspected PK Accounts

Google Docs (docs.google.com)

[mwadmin@mastodon.world]

@liaizon Signups need to be approved, but sometimes we get fooled by the bots. We are planning some tools for helping on this,

[iftas@mastodon.iftas.org]

@liaizon