[Meta] New bot just dropped, keep a watchful eye.

Hi, dessert lovers!

We've been noticing continuous evolution in the bot arms race towards a Dead Internet, and there's a new style that's just popped up. It'd help if users can help recognize this new form, so we can remove them more promptly. Report them as you see them, and we'll do our best to keep removing them!

Here are screenshots taken of two relatively-innocuous profiles that poped up on this thread today. Included snapshots are of both post and comment history. Unfortunately, a cursory inspection doesn't immediately trigger alarm bells, but check out the date creation for both accounts. The other day we removed two more posts, both from accounts created on the same day as well, so we suspect there will be more coming in the future. Looks like there's a new adaptation on the block, and we're sure they'll shift to become even more unassuming in the near future.

Unfortunately, this issue is reflective of Reddit as a whole these days, and doesn't bode well for the future of the Internet. We've been at this point for awhile; it seems virtually every single submission's post history has to be viewed to determine personhood. The old tells no longer apply.

You can also report the accounts directly by going to their profile, hitting the "report button", selecting "spam", then choosing "disruptive use of AI or bots".