HN Flooded with Spam AI Girlfriend Comments

Posted by Netherland4TW on Monday April 22, 2024 @07:01PM
from the self-post dept.

Hi everyone, I have noticed a ton of new comments on recent posts (within the last 10 minutes) that read roughly "hi are u lonely want ai gf?? $discord_link $password" from 2genders####. See https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=2genders31453. What is going on? Usually HN is so good at spam prevention, which is a huge reason I use this site over any other one. It feels like such a weird invasion over such a normally spam-free website

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Re:HN Flooded with Spam AI Girlfriend Comments by drivers99 on Monday April 22, 2024 @07:05PM (#40124794)

There’s a thread about it here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40118778

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Re:HN Flooded with Spam AI Girlfriend Comments by Netherland4TW on Monday April 22, 2024 @07:14PM (#40125585)

Thanks for sharing the link! Really interesting that its a multi-platform issue with reddit and twitter affected

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Re:HN Flooded with Spam AI Girlfriend Comments by dang on Monday April 22, 2024 @08:26PM (#40127155)

Comments moved thither. Thanks!

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Re:HN Flooded with Spam AI Girlfriend Comments by worryweasel on Monday April 22, 2024 @07:09PM (#40125177)

HN flooded with dupes: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40118778

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Re:HN Flooded with Spam AI Girlfriend Comments by thrwaway1337 on Monday April 22, 2024 @07:10PM (#40125180)

It's the day after the YC application deadline, so my hypothesis is resources that would otherwise be dealing with these script kiddies spamming HN are spread thin at the moment...

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