If It Chats Like A Bot ...

... then it's probably a chatbot. My suspicions about the attractive young female wanting to chat on LinkedIn were probably correct. From 404 Media:

LinkedIn and X Are Flooded With AI Spam, Browsing Data Suggests

An AI detection company found that amount of AI content that users actually see in their day-to-day browsing is shockingly high.

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As much as 41 percent of longform written content seen by users on LinkedIn is likely to be fully AI-generated and roughly a third of longer posts on X are AI-generated; roughly one-in-ten longer Reddit and Substack posts are AI, according to the data.

I have noticed a pattern on BlueSky (@jazdumoz.bsky.social). You get a new follower, follow them back (within reason), get a chat request, usually reply "No DMs.". Here's what my chat page currently looks like.

I counted back to the 1st of the year, 2026-01-01. 59 chat requests, 52 from deleted accounts. 88.1% bots. Pathetic. At least BlueSky does seem to be finding them & deleting them.

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From "The Algorithmic Bridge" blog of Alberto Romero:

OpenAI GPT-5.6: AI Could Do Anything, Then It Met ARC-AGI-3

GPT-5.6’s ARC-AGI-3 score is scandalously bad and scandalously good

ARC-AGI is the "Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus for Artificial General Intelligence". It's been around since 2019. LLMs solved the -1 & -2 versions. The scandalous score was 7.8%. The previous high score was 1.5%. So a factor of 5.2 improvement, but it still sucks.

Alberto says he is a writer, not a technologist. He seems to be somewhat of a fanboy.

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From Malwarebytes:

Scammers are using AI to sell impossible flowers

We’ve had problems with deepfake celebrity scams, non-consensual deepfake sexual material, and deepfake politicians. Now we have to deal with… deepfake plants?

I was going to copy the pic of unbelievable cat-faced orchids, but luckily I remembered, that would violate the terms of this blog re AI usage.

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From 404 Media again:

AI Fiction Is Easy to Detect Because It's Stupid and Bad, Research Finds

ChatGPT uses too many dream sequences and Gemini won’t stop describing characters.

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This last is kind of interesting. From Tim O'Reilly, whom I mentioned in my very 1st Bullshit Apocalypse post, in his "Conversations with AI" SubStack:

information work is actually responsibility work wearing an information costume

Claude Fable on the Jobless Apocalypse

O'Reilly says Claude Fable doesn't think there will be a Jobspocalypse. A lot of the discussion is about humans as "responsibility sinks". It reminds me why, in a physician's medical practice the physician makes the big bucks - they are the 1 with the malpractice insurance. They are where the buck stops. AIs can never fill that roll - according to Claude?!?!?

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Here's the home page/directory for my posts on Bullshit. This is post #135.