Seeing a lot of spam comments in the last few minutes from accounts that all have similar names. Omitting name since it is NSFW.
Ask HN: Is Hacker News under attack from spam bots?
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Re: Ask HN: Is Hacker News under attack from spam bots?
#2Obviously, yes.
Re: Ask HN: Is Hacker News under attack from spam bots?
#3Yep, guess the admins will have a busy day. Seems 10000s of accounts being created and used to spam ai sex bots.
Re: Ask HN: Is Hacker News under attack from spam bots?
#4It sure looks like it; every front page post has a dozen or so comments from unique bot accounts.
Hopefully we don't see a 'Show HN: I created a spam bot service to advertise on every HN post' soon.
Re: Ask HN: Is Hacker News under attack from spam bots?
#5Interesting that this wasn’t baked in as a preventative method for repeat usernames.
Which is also ironic because why would this guy reuse the same username for his little spam campaign when it can be nuked in one line of code…
Amateur stuff.
Never seen it happen before though!
Re: Ask HN: Is Hacker News under attack from spam bots?
#6Clearly, I'm surprised there isn't a spam filter that detects this obvious attack.
Re: Ask HN: Is Hacker News under attack from spam bots?
#7Yep, guess the admins will have a busy day. Seems 10000s of accounts being created and used to spam ai sex bots.
Luckily the accounts are all prefixed with the exact same phrase, which should make cleanup easier.
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Re: Ask HN: Is Hacker News under attack from spam bots?
#10Interesting that this wasn’t baked in as a preventative method for repeat usernames. Which is also ironic because why would this guy reuse the same username for his little spam campaign when it can be nuked in one line of code… Amateur stuff. Never seen it happen before though!
Really wonder, if this kind of spam is the perfect application for an LLM based agent.