DUCK 2024 年 9 月 5 日 上午 10:21
Bots in review comments?
Has anyone else seen more of bots in the comment section? both for reviews and more obscure areas with comments, be it guides or anything else.
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👾 2024 年 9 月 5 日 上午 10:37 
Nobody reads these comments so here is a cat, it will eat a tablespoon of ketchup for every award this gets

😺
最后由 👾 编辑于; 2024 年 9 月 5 日 上午 10:37
Thiesen 2024 年 9 月 5 日 上午 11:43 
"I am a 54 year old father... blah blah blah ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ my ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ ass all day long..."

Not to mention all the ASCII arts in the reviews... I wish I had a way to auto report those
最后由 Thiesen 编辑于; 2024 年 9 月 5 日 上午 11:52
Gnome 2024 年 9 月 6 日 上午 7:12 
I'm seeing lots of bots on reviews with comments like:

"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.
DUCK 2024 年 9 月 6 日 下午 12:55 
okey so I'm not the only one seeing those.
Boris 2024 年 9 月 6 日 下午 4:41 
In the space of 24 hours, I noticed a lot of strange activity regarding comments on old reviews.
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.
爆発-Majora 2024 年 9 月 26 日 下午 3:57 
引用自 👾
Nobody reads these comments so here is a cat, it will eat a tablespoon of ketchup for every award this gets

😺

Steam Point farm scheme completely and utterly failed.
Tabascofanatikerin 2024 年 10 月 14 日 上午 9:43 
Yes, this discussion helped me to understand that today a bot commented on one of my reviews as well.

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.
600piecesof8 2024 年 10 月 14 日 上午 10:04 
引用自 Penguin
I'm seeing lots of bots on reviews with comments like:

"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.

same over here. Profile: @IsabelRodriguez and Mandy, I think I also had.
最后由 600piecesof8 编辑于; 2024 年 10 月 14 日 上午 10:10
Rin 2024 年 10 月 14 日 上午 10:36 
Botting is done in waves, same with phishing. As long as valve makes money, a compromised account is just another asset in the end.
Snappums 2024 年 10 月 15 日 上午 10:25 
Found this topic after having an odd reply to one of my very old reviews. Female name. AI generated profile picture. All very strange.
DUCK 2024 年 10 月 15 日 上午 10:37 
would assume exposed accounts, but when and why? or if by just its own wave of stolen ones? hope its not some security issues with steam.
最后由 DUCK 编辑于; 2024 年 10 月 15 日 上午 10:37
Gnome 2024 年 10 月 15 日 下午 1:45 
引用自 DUCK
would assume exposed accounts, but when and why? or if by just its own wave of stolen ones? hope its not some security issues with steam.

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.
crunchyfrog 2024 年 10 月 15 日 下午 5:35 
It's inevitable that it would turn up here because it's going to turn up everywhere where there's traffic.

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.
最后由 crunchyfrog 编辑于; 2024 年 10 月 15 日 下午 5:36
DUCK 2024 年 10 月 16 日 上午 12:50 
引用自 crunchyfrog
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.
never has to mention the E word :sila_look:
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.
最后由 DUCK 编辑于; 2024 年 10 月 16 日 上午 12:55
crunchyfrog 2024 年 10 月 16 日 上午 1:48 
引用自 DUCK
引用自 crunchyfrog
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.
never has to mention the E word :sila_look:
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.
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