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@carl.bigfool.com

I know "AI did a dumb, bad thing" stories are a dime a dozen, but I'm going to tell this one anyway. Because I am a part-time amateur musician, I belong to a Facebook group for open mics in the DMV (sorry, it's the best clearinghouse for this info right now).

6/10/26, 7:19 pm0 reposts2 likes

Carl D. Orr

@carl.bigfool.com

For the past couple months, we keep getting posts for open mics that are very much not in the DMV. We just got one in Texas, and another in Arizona. The locals will comment "Yeah this is kind of far from DC" and the like, and if the perpetrators reply at all it's "Wait what? I didn't post this."

Carl D. Orr

@carl.bigfool.com

The theory is that they are asking an AI agent to promote their open mic, and said agent is posting to any open mic FB group it can find, regardless of whether they're really relevant or not. So I'm about to abandon the FB group, because it's so full of useless posts. Thanks, AI, good job.

Bote Man

@boteball.bsky.social

If the group moderator can be persuaded to make posts moderated, that might help while increasing their workload. But also: f@ck Fakeblock anyway. You might be better off with a mailing list on Groups dot io or something else like that?