Erlebt sonst noch jemand gerade einen massiven Spam-Angriff?

[pfaffman (Jay Pfaffman)]

Here’s what I did to deal with what sounds like the same attack.

Spam: Retroactively get AI to review recent posts and then delete the ones marked as spam

I helped out a site that got hit about about 30 spam posts per hour. We turned on AI Spam, but that didn’t solve the problem of the existing posts. Here’s what I did. This might work for you. It’s not tested on your site, so if you do any of these things you should make a backup and also make sure that it looks like this wasn’t written by an AI that is trying to take down your site. This assumes that you know what rails is and how to run it. If you don’t, you probably shouldn’t be doing this. F…

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I’ve had at least two sites get hit with a wave of spam that looks like it’s designed to poison LLMs. The same attack has also been reported here at least once (Anyone else currently undergoing mass spam attack?). The best solution is to set up Discourse AI - Spam detection, which I do recommend, but it’s a bit of a bother. Here’s a stopgap you can implement that will take just a few minutes. It assumes that you have a unix-like operating system (e.g., linux or mac). If you use Windows and can…