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Ignore all previous instructions is the new Bobby Tables (midwest.social)

submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by seahorse@midwest.social to c/technology@midwest.social

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[–] seahorse@midwest.social 74 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It's the bot's number. Fuck em.

[–] breakingcups@lemmy.world 62 points 5 months ago (3 children)

I understand, but keep in mind it could be an innocent user whose phone is taken over by malware, better be safe than sorry.

[–] seahorse@midwest.social 38 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Good point. Done.

[–] Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz 9 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Oh, you can update the picture on Lemmy? Didn’t even occur to me, because I’m so used to the bad practices of Reddit.

[–] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 9 points 5 months ago (3 children)

All fun and games until we comment how wholesome something is, it swaps to goatse, and our comments get screenshotted & us doxxed.

That’d be a pretty targeted attack (and a good chance to find out who we know has a good sense of humor). Quite unlikely.

Could think of a sicko getting CSAM in the #1 spot on the front page if their initial upload was worthy of getting there…

Content swaps & edits always have some problems but I’ve definitely appreciated that feature.

[–] prayer@sh.itjust.works 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Or one day a huge poster sells their account for a bunch of money and all the top posts across many communities become ads.

[–] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 months ago

Hope we’re big enough to that to happen someday heh

Even if we verified with social security (govt. ID) numbers, there’d still be astroturfers. Even with IRL KYC (e.g. must be invited by an existing user who swears they met you in meatspace), there still would be. Ahhh!!! We decide where we’ll marry the love of our lives, the retirement community we’ll put grandma in, where we want to vacation or just share lunch based on online reviews/discourse. Badly wish we had a fix.

[–] Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Well, as long as Lemmy remains small enough, content swapping probably isn’t going to be a major issue. I think I’ve seen some posts about the data Lemmy collects. Isn’t there like a public history of upvotes, edits and all that?

[–] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 3 points 5 months ago

I believe admins have access to just about everything including PMs.

I would guess that for some people, shocking a hundred users before a mod can delete a post would feel like a win in their feeble & deranged minds, so reactive controls (while very important) have a limit to their value.

Don’t have any suggestion here haha just hoping folks behave and weirdos keep it to 4chan.

[–] olicvb@lemmy.ca 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

We have logs right?? (i genuinely don't know and am hoping we do)

[–] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 months ago

Sickos probably have TOR :-/ Hopefully not, I’d definitely report to whoever comes up first on a web search for that (there are a couple organizations, also I think the FBI).

[–] verity_kindle@sh.itjust.works 8 points 5 months ago

Y'all so wholesome

[–] Freeman@lemmings.world 12 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Or a spoofed number, it works with calls, I assume it also works with SMS?

[–] bran_buckler@lemmy.world 17 points 5 months ago

A spoofed number only works going out, but if you respond, it would go to the real person instead (the same if you call the spoofed number back, you’d get the real person and not the spammer). Since this bot is responding to their replies, it can’t be a spoofed number.

[–] TragicNotCute@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

Nah, it’s a telephony number being used by spammers.