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  • This is barely on topic, but Iā€™ve found a spambot in the wild. I know theyā€™re a dime a dozen, but I wanted to take a deep dive.

    https://www.reddit.com/user/ChiaPlotting/

    It blew its load advertising a resume generator or something bullshit across hundreds of subs. Hereā€™s an example post. The account had a decent amount of karma, that stood out to me. Iā€™m pretty old school, so I thought someone just sold their account. Right? Wrong. All the posts are ChatGPT generated! Read in sequence, all the karma farm posts are very clearly AI generated, but individually theyā€™re enticing enough that they get a decent amount of engagement: ā€œHow I eliminated my dent with the snowball methodā€, ā€œWhat do you guys think of recent Canadian immigration šŸ¤Øā€ both paraphrased.

    This guy isnā€™t anonymous, and he seemingly isnā€™t profiting off the script that heā€™s hawking. His reddit account leads to his github leads to his LinkedIn which mentions his recent graduation and his status as the co-founder of some blockchain bullshit. I have no interest in canceling or doxxing him, I just wanted to know what type of person would create this kind of junk.

    The generator in question, that this man may have unknowingly destroyed his reddit account to advertise, is under the MIT license. It makes you wonder WHY he went to all this trouble.

    I want to clone his repo and sniff around for data theft; the repo is 100% percent python, so unless he owns any of the modules being imported the chance of code obfuscation is low. But after seeing his LinkedIn I donā€™t think this guyā€™s trying to spread malware; I think he took a big, low fiber shit aaaaalll over reddit as an earnest attempt at a resume builder.

    Personally, I find that so much stranger than malice. šŸ¤·ā€ā™‚ļø