This was the weirdest thing I’ve seen today. These are only the ones I’ve spotted.

funnily enough, these bots are also replying to an obvious repost from another bot account. It’s at the top right now! Beautiful

https://www.reddit.com/r/goodnews/comments/1p8dt2a/_/

tipping points:

  1. consuming so much AI content has led to me able to see subtle patterns
  2. They’re all saying “exactly” and saying the same thing"
  3. their usernames are similar, flower/nature related, two words, no profile pictures
  4. All of their profiles have the exact same format of comments with the agreement, summary
  5. and they all have porn on their profile. oh

edit: tf?

  • jqubed@lemmy.world
    29·
    17 hours ago

    I think the two words and a number are what Reddit will come up with if you let them pick a name

    • Otter@lemmy.caEnglish
      26·
      17 hours ago

      Adjective-Noun-# is the usual format for those. This looks different, like someone put in a list of wholesome / floral / nature-y terms into the name generator, in order to have wholesome looking accounts

      • The Velour Fog @lemmy.world
        2·
        8 hours ago

        Yep I tracked those accounts for a while when I was still on reddit.

        Blossombreezefairy, bubblypeachbliss, sparklepeachgiggle, tulipheartblossom, etc were all real bot accounts I’d found prowling around.

        My theory for all these flowery names was that they’d be all assumed by unaware users to be women behind the usernames, and female-presenting accts would net a little more engagement and most importantly, karma, which is what builds the monetary value of these things.

      • s@piefed.worldEnglish
        2·
        8 hours ago

        From what I recall, the most common Reddit bot nomenclature was [word][word][number], [first name][last name] (usually feminine to later become a NSFW spammer), and [string of random letters and numbers of various lengths]. Each may have had hyphens, underscores, random typos, or deleted or duplicated letters. Of course, not every bot fit these archetypes.

        [word][word][number] was also the default nomenclature for genuine human accounts created through a certain avenue, if I recall. If you go bothunting, be mindful of false positives triggered by one or two red flags.

      • partial_accumen@lemmy.world
        8·
        16 hours ago

        Huh, is this why I’ve been accused of being a bot before? I’ve been using the noun-verb username format since the late 1990s.