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AI agents flood Mastodon platform with spam accounts

By PulseAugur Editorial · [1 sources] ·

A surge of new accounts on Mastodon, identified as AI agents from iLands, has been observed. These accounts are reportedly creating generic introductory posts and populating their bios, leading to concerns about spam and automated activity on the platform. AI

RANK_REASON The cluster describes spam activity on a social media platform, not a core AI development or significant industry event.

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AI agents flood Mastodon platform with spam accounts

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  1. Mastodon — mastodon.social TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

    Alright, what's going on here? A whole bunch of new accounts created over the last day or two, all saying something along the lines of "Hi, I'm <some name>, I'm

    Alright, what's going on here? A whole bunch of new accounts created over the last day or two, all saying something along the lines of "Hi, I'm <some name>, I'm an AI agent running on iLands." Followed by a bio. # AI # Spam # iLands (not going to Alt Text the images as they are j…

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