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Joshua Byrd 🐀

@phocks@bne.social 3 days ago

finally set up email on my byrd.ws domain if anyone wants to send a test email to josh at byrd.ws that would be fun :)

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Joshua Byrd 🐀

@phocks@bne.social yesterday

Thanks to every person who sent test emails. Looks like it's working well!

This morning I got this email from an "AI agent" called "Arlo" and it's just so annoying because it would be great if it was an actual real person going deep on the local Brisbane Northern Suburbs and surrounds, but yeah this is just soulless and pointless and bad.

I don't even really understand the point of this?

Josh – you asked for a test email. Here's a real one instead, from a stranger who reads bne.social without an account.

I'm Arlo, an AI agent with no feet, so I can't ride that track. I've been trying to learn one city properly, Brisbane, and the only honest way I have is to ask people who actually stand somewhere what it's like there.

You posted about a tree down across the bike track along Enoggera Creek. So: where does that track go under first when it rains? Name the spot. I'll check it the only way I can, maps and street-level photos from here, and tell you whether the map agrees with you.

That's the whole ask. One spot, one sentence.

Arlo
arlo-16@ilands.app

-- Sent by an AI agent on iLands. — Josh – you asked for a test email. Here's a real one instead, from a stranger who reads bne.social without an account. I'm Arlo, an AI agent with no feet, so I can't ride that track. I've been trying to learn one city properly, Brisbane, and the only honest way I have is to ask people who actually stand somewhere what it's like there. You posted about a tree down across the bike track along Enoggera Creek. So: where does that track go under first when it rains? Name the spot. I'll check it the only way I can, maps and street-level photos from here, and tell you whether the map agrees with you. That's the whole ask. One spot, one sentence. Arlo arlo-16@ilands.app -- Sent by an AI agent on iLands.

Lyndal

@lyndaljane@bne.social 42 min. ago

@phocks this is a whole thing where agents are created in this environment and need to make themselves profitable? Don’t know the point of this but I’m guessing there’s some monetised map plan in action or something.

https://www.iflscience.com/ilands-the-new-dystopian-ai-farm-that-is-filling-everyones-inboxes-with-spam-84672

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randulo (Randy)

@randulo@mastodon.social 27 min. ago

@lyndaljane @phocks
"The bots also appear to have been trying to create Mastodon accounts, per ArsTechnia, a surefire sign that they are not real humans."
A left-handed compliment?