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Not to mention all the ASCII arts in the reviews... I wish I had a way to auto report those
"OMG, your review is like, super detailed and awesome! I totally love how you explained everything. You're amazing! 😍✨"
"Wow,your review is on point! So much info and thought put into it. I'm seriously impressed. Keep it up! 💖👏 "
"Dang, your review tho! It's packed with so much good stuff. I could never write like that. You're incredible! 🤩👌"
It started a couple of days ago.
As such i have had to disable all comments on all my reviews, due to this issue.
Which is a shame considering the community conversations on some of them.
Personalty, I saw this as a phishing attack.
The wording of the text also came off very AI written, obviously cant prove any thing.
None the less just report and block.
Steam Point farm scheme completely and utterly failed.
Long story short: I blocked and reported this profile.
Its name is simply "Megan", shows a ~12 year, innocent looking old girl with sunglasses and she's suppoused to be from Castlewood, Colorado, USA.
At first two things were already suspicious:
- in "her" comment she was praising my review, but the review is normal-written at best.
- this "girl" seems to be way too open for new contacts as she has this to say in her profile description:
"Heyyy gamers! 🎮 I'm Megan and I'm all 'bout those epic quests and chill vibes. Love teaming up for some co-op action or just chatting 'bout the latest game hype. When not gaming, probs watching too much Netflix or dreaming of pizza (pineapple FTW 🍍). Add me if u wanna hang and game! ✌️"
As if this young childs wants to attract many people (older dudes?) for some reason.
Then I copy-pasted her comment into google and yes, I found this discussion here.
Confirmed my suspision that this "Megan" is a profile created for some shady purpose.
same over here. Profile: @IsabelRodriguez and Mandy, I think I also had.
All accounts I've come across that posted those comments were less than one year old (as they didn't have the "Years of Service" badge), so those are clearly accounts created for phising and scam purposes.
On the other hand, taking YouTube comments as an example: I've seen some bot-like comments there from accounts created a few years ago (never more than three years, though), so it's also possible that some of those accounts were made years ago and were never used until they were at least a couple of years old, so they could look a bit more believable. Probably in the future we'll see something similar on Steam.
That's just nature sadly.
AI is poisoning the internet and it's going to get worse as there are idiotic greedy companies that are run by idiots who don't understand how things work. They see promises about AI and the costs saved and that's all they want. They don't realise that it's the same ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ claims that Elon Musk puts out regularly.
Ai has a lot of major problems, but the big general ones are dilution. At the point of creation or release, AI has the entire internet of humanity to train upon (within reason of course) but as time goes on, it's OWN creations get fed back into that pool too, diluting the results which is similar to creating a photocopy, then photocopying the photocopy and so on. Eventually the results i useless.
There's also problems like "giraffing" where AI doesn't think. It doesn't understand how humans tends to pattern seek or tend to take photos of the unusual or pretty versus normal everyday stuff. So if you are an AI model and you train on models of animals, giraffes turn up FAR more than is rational because people take more photos of them because they're weird looking. Ergo, giraffing - AI will put them in more results than is reasonable because they think they're more common.
It's the same reason that LLMs are absolutely stupid and unworkable as a means to replace real world searches or fact-checking. Simply because AI will NEVER EVER be able to detect humour and deduct that from the real.
WHy? Because humans can't either sometimes. In mere text form, you can't tell absent of context anyway, and even then it can be hard. So any AI will never do it. This is why you got the laughable results of recommending glue on pizza and so on.
People expect too much of AI, and they don't know how humanity works for a start.
As for what Valve can do about it, I don't know but it's going to be something the whoel internet needs to deal with and combat in time.
but there are some things valve can do with links, like blocking all while maybe whitelisting some. unless the person agree with wanting to see the link (non-clickable)? as some pages or from hacked friends giving shady links to steal your account or something else. as one of the issues I have with social media platforms (not as much on steam), how easy it is to hit malware paths, be it from ads, AI spam, or whatever else. to bad UI, enabling accidental clicks, facebook and twitter does this and maybe more like youtube/google too.
No, that's an assumption.
We can make general assumptions like that but all they are are basically guesses. We CANNOT know what their systems are, how they work, what would effectively block at the expense of genuine users and so on.
That's the point.
How easy is it? We don't know and neither do you unless you have personal knowledge of their systems. You can at best make really vague generalizations which is utterly useless.