Since scammers use AI, I have become suspicious. Do some scammers use bots to fool as many members as possible?
I accepted network request. The member then told me that she was a translator. I answered that I have myself been a freelance translator. I deleted her from my network because a scammer can easily pretend to be a translator but let AI do the job. And I am myself used to using AI to translate from languages I don't know, so I have no need for such service.
I accepted another network request. The member then told me that she created promotional videos. I asked for an example. She sent a link and it looked like AI. She denied the video was created by AI, but there was no text telling the names of the humans who had helped her create it. I deleted her too from my network. Odd, if she had checked my profile she would had noticed the big camcorder on my shoulder respectively my prize for best directing.
Have the rest of you suffered from bots which behaved in similar ways?
Since scammers would love to use AI to contact as many members as possible, I have started to think about one possibility. That admin limits the number of other members one can send network requests to. Because scammers immediately send network requests to many members. Any better suggestion?
Göran Johansson yes, Göran, there are bots in the community; even ones which comment on our posts. They/it usually sound very wooden, like an artificial cut and paste job. The best thing to do is ask the support team to check them out.
Support@stage32.com
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Dear Geoff, great to see that I am not the only one who has started to worry about this problem. Because that makes it easier to limit the problem.
Göran Johansson Göran, let me know how you get on with the support team, please. Have a great weekend.
I have not told them because I am not sure if it was scammers or honest people who contacted me. After all, there are people who express themselves so clumsily that people become suspicious. But I have earlier reported people who were scammers. Including reporting people who made themselves guilty of identity theft. And I have told those who were the victims of the identity thefts.