This may not be the right place to post this, but I wanted to know about this. Recently I have seen a lot of bots posting in the iPhone/iOS forums. Their posts are in Chinese, I have not attempted to translate them to find out what they mean. Has the source of these been figured out yet? Since I have not been able to get a translation of the texts yet I do not know if their posts are advertising something, or even threats.
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Something you can do, once you report the posts you can ignore the spammer and it'll remove all of their posts from your view. I just did that and it looks much better.
Usually, in fairness, the spammer is dealt with pretty rapidly, and - unless they have been littering the forum with a burst of perfervid activity, once they have been reported, they tend to disappear in short order.
On the more recent issue of AI chatbot accounts, may I suggest restricting new user comments to threads no older than 4 months.
Example https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/ssl-certificate-setup.2398987/post-32938161
![chatbot.jpg]( "chatbot.jpg")
Example https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/ssl-certificate-setup.2398987/post-32938161
