Speedrun.com has an AI problem

Описание: Today I investigated a possible AI bot infiltrating the speedrun.com forums causing a lot of new posts for countless of games within the last 72 hours. What is happening? Where does it end? Let's talk about it!

►►► Sources ◄◄◄
The SRGTsilent post
https://bsky.app/profile/srgtsilent.b...

The Spreadsheet
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...

The srdc account archive.org page:
https://web.archive.org/web/202602240...

►►► Tags ◄◄◄
#speedrun #bots #deadinternettheory

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𝐎𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐒𝐨𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥𝐬
https://bsky.app/profile/hau5test.bsk...
https://www.threads.com/@hau5test
https://mastodon.social/@hau5test

►►► Chapters ◄◄◄
0:00 Intro
0:30 How I learned about Zeus
2:38 Profile comparison
5:33 Reading the first threads
7:49 Categories of posts
9:36 The Mario Kart 7 Post
10:41 Mass Posting Starts
14:01 What is the point?
17:20 tinfoil hat theory time
18:50 Why so many small games?
20:40 The Mario Kart 8 Post
21:52 Maybe there is a human
27:03 the PSP era
30:30 "high quality posting"
32:04 The Halo 3 post
34:41 The Playstation 2 era
37:58 more AI hints
39:21 the Switch 2 hints
41:21 the Nintendo 3DS era
44:39 Where do we go from here?
46:28 Talking to Zeus
47:40 One Last Worry
50:46 my advice to new people