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Mastodon user reports bot account rapidly shifting to racist AI content

A Mastodon user reported a bot account that quickly changed its profile description from a seemingly innocuous persona to one promoting AI-generated images and racist content. The user expressed frustration with the bot's behavior and their server's vulnerability to such accounts. In response, they blocked the bot and its domain, reinforcing their decision to require follow requests and verification of humanity via direct message. AI

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RANK_REASON The item describes a single user's experience with a bot on a social media platform, which does not constitute a significant event or trend.

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  1. Mastodon — mastodon.social TIER_1 · [email protected] ·

    Just got a Follow request from # bot . Scrolled the timeline, and quicky-quick it went from "I am retired german captain sailor man", to # AI images and racist

    Just got a Follow request from # bot . Scrolled the timeline, and quicky-quick it went from "I am retired german captain sailor man", to # AI images and racist nazi crap. Ugh, no. Fuck that. Deny request, block botnik, block domain. Still gonna go with requiring Follow approval, …