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Re:Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board by kazinator on Saturday September 05, 2026 @05:04PM (#49580679)
If you've had to delete 10 posts by the same user, which you suspect is an AI agent, it's safe to say that deleting all posts ever made by that user is a good shortcut.
Re:Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board by sfn42 on Sunday September 06, 2026 @06:37AM (#49585151)
There are a lot of people in this world who just don't think that way. I know someone involved with a research project, they had a spreadsheet(not excel but similar) with something like 250 columns and tens of thousands of rows, and they tasked an assistant with replacing all the empty cells with 0 for some reason.

This was supposed to take 2 weeks of manual work, I took a look at it, googled how to do it automatically, finished the whole thing in a few minutes.

But both this assistant and the PhD they reported to were ready to spend 2 weeks doing it manually.

Re:Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board by Geezus_42 on Sunday September 06, 2026 @08:45AM (#49586033)
But useless if they are constantly rotating usernames.