Bot/AI generated reviews?

@Bethanny​ I see the account in question here was deleted, but I noticed he just returned with another account immediately, posting same reviews again: https://www.imdb.com/user/ur144384572/

@Bethanny​ The new account reached the 1000+ reviews already.

@mbmb​ 😀 The new account ... SilverScreenSage1939 ---> 1930sFellow Tue May 9 2023 ---> averyoldmoviefan Wed May 10 2023 ---> MoviesGetBetterWithAge_Expert Sat May 13 2023 ---> MyHistoryOfFilms Tue May 16 2023 ---> VeryOldMovieFan Thu May 18 2023 ---> BeenWatchingMovieForever Mon May 22 2023 ---> StillGoingStrong Thu May 25 2023 ---> HistoryOfMovies Mon May 29 2023 ---> FilmInPerspective Sat Jun 3 2023 ---> Mymoviediscography Tue Jun 6 2023 ---> HistoryInFilm Tue Jun 13 2023 IMDb member since November 2021 https://www.imdb.com/user/ur144384572/ https://www.imdb.com/user/ur144384572/reviews 404 The page could not be found Tue Jun 13 2023 Sun May 7 2023 - 1,011 Reviews Wayback Machine Mon May 8 2023 - 1,568 Reviews Tue May 9 2023 - 2,434 Reviews (866 2-hour movies in 24 hours ??) Wed May 10 2023 - 2,640 Reviews (206 2-hour movies in 24 hours ??) Wayback Machine Thu May 11 2023 - 2,702 Reviews ( 62 2-hour movies in 24 hours ??) Fri May 12 2023 - 2,800 Reviews ( 98 2-hour movies in 24 hours ??) Sat May 13 2023 - 2,889 Reviews ( 89 2-hour movies in 24 hours ??) Sun May 14 2023 - 2,994 Reviews (105 2-hour movies in 24 hours ??) Mon May 15 2023 - 3,051 Reviews ( 57 2-hour movies in 24 hours ??) Tue May 16 2023 - 3,133 Reviews ( 82 2-hour movies in 24 hours ??) Wed May 17 2023 - 3,254 Reviews (121 2-hour movies in 24 hours ??) Thu May 18 2023 - 3,417 Reviews (163 2-hour movies in 24 hours ??) Fri May 19 2023 - 3,626 Reviews (209 2-hour movies in 24 hours ??) Sat May 20 2023 - 3,627 Reviews ( 1 2-hour movie in 24 hours ??) Sun May 21 2023 - 3,680 Reviews ( 53 2-hour movies in 24 hours ??) Wayback Machine Mon May 22 2023 - 3,761 Reviews ( 81 2-hour movies in 24 hours ??) Tue May 23 2023 - 3,878 Reviews (117 2-hour movies in 24 hours ??) Wed May 24 2023 - 4,050 Reviews (172 2-hour movies in 24 hours ??) Thu May 25 2023 - 4,233 Reviews (183 2-hour movies in 24 hours ??) Fri May 26 2023 - 4,330 Reviews ( 97 2-hour movies in 24 hours ??) Sat May 27 2023 - 4,364 Reviews ( 34 2-hour movies in 24 hours ??) Sun May 28 2023 - 4,503 Reviews (139 2-hour movies in 24 hours ??) Mon May 29 2023 - 4,667 Reviews (164 2-hour movies in 24 hours ??) Wayback Machine Tue May 30 2023 - 4,874 Reviews (207 2-hour movies in 24 hours ??) Wed May 31 2023 - 5,021 Reviews (147 2-hour movies in 24 hours ??) Top Contributor Leaderboard for May 2023 https://contribute.imdb.com/leaderboard/2023/5/ #99 Mymoviediscography 5,031 Items https://contribute.imdb.com/leaderboard/contributor/ur144384572/ Thu Jun 1 2023 - 5,192 Reviews (171 2-hour movies in 24 hours ??) Fri Jun 2 2023 - 5,244 Reviews ( 52 2-hour movies in 24 hours ??) Sat Jun 3 2023 - 5,274 Reviews ( 30 2-hour movies in 24 hours ??) Wayback Machine Sun Jun 4 2023 - 5,378 Reviews (104 2-hour movies in 24 hours ??) Mon Jun 5 2023 - 5,513 Reviews (135 2-hour movies in 24 hours ??) Tue Jun 6 2023 - 5,704 Reviews (191 2-hour movies in 24 hours ??) Wed Jun 7 2023 - 5,839 Reviews (135 2-hour movies in 24 hours ??) Thu Jun 8 2023 - 5,968 Reviews (129 2-hour movies in 24 hours ??) Fri Jun 9 2023 - 6,211 Reviews (243 2-hour movies in 24 hours ??) Sat Jun 10 2023 - 6,274 Reviews ( 63 2-hour movies in 24 hours ??) Wayback Machine Sun Jun 11 2023 - 6,307 Reviews ( 33 2-hour movies in 24 hours ??) Mon Jun 12 2023 - 6,307 Reviews ( 0 2-hour movies in 24 hours ??) Tue Jun 13 2023 - 0 Reviews ( 0 2-hour movies in 24 hours ??) - - - Total all User Reviews Sun May 14 2023 - 9,055,500 https://www.imdb.com/review/rw9055500/ Mon May 15 2023 - 9,057,500 https://www.imdb.com/review/rw9057500/ Tue May 16 2023 - 9,059,500 https://www.imdb.com/review/rw9059500/ Wed May 17 2023 - 9,061,500 https://www.imdb.com/review/rw9061500/ Thu May 18 2023 - 9,063,500 https://www.imdb.com/review/rw9063500/ Fri May 19 2023 - 9,065,500 https://www.imdb.com/review/rw9065500/ Sat May 20 2023 - 9,067,500 https://www.imdb.com/review/rw9067500/ Sun May 21 2023 - 9,069,500 https://www.imdb.com/review/rw9069500/ Mon May 22 2023 - 9,071,500 https://www.imdb.com/review/rw9071500/ Tue May 23 2023 - 9,073,500 https://www.imdb.com/review/rw9073500/ Wed May 24 2023 - 9,075,500 https://www.imdb.com/review/rw9075500/ Thu May 25 2023 - 9,077,500 https://www.imdb.com/review/rw9077500/ Fri May 26 2023 - 9,079,500 https://www.imdb.com/review/rw9079500/ Sat May 27 2023 - 9,081,500 https://www.imdb.com/review/rw9081500/ Sun May 28 2023 - 9,083,500 https://www.imdb.com/review/rw9083500/ Mon May 29 2023 - 9,085,500 https://www.imdb.com/review/rw9085500/ Tue May 30 2023 - 9,089,500 https://www.imdb.com/review/rw9089500/ Wed May 31 2023 - 9,091,500 https://www.imdb.com/review/rw9091500/ Thu Jun 1 2023 - 9,093,500 https://www.imdb.com/review/rw9093500/ Fri Jun 2 2023 - 9,095,500 https://www.imdb.com/review/rw9095500/ Sat Jun 3 2023 - 9,098,500 https://www.imdb.com/review/rw9098500/ Sun Jun 4 2023 - 9,100,500 https://www.imdb.com/review/rw9100500/ Mon Jun 5 2023 - 9,102,500 https://www.imdb.com/review/rw9102500/ Tue Jun 6 2023 - 9,104,500 https://www.imdb.com/review/rw9104500/ Wed Jun 7 2023 - 9,106,500 https://www.imdb.com/review/rw9106500/ Thu Jun 8 2023 - 9,108,500 https://www.imdb.com/review/rw9108500/ Fri Jun 9 2023 - 9,110,500 https://www.imdb.com/review/rw9110500/ Sat Jun 10 2023 - 9,112,500 https://www.imdb.com/review/rw9112500/ Sun Jun 11 2023 - 9,114,500 https://www.imdb.com/review/rw9114500/ Mon Jun 12 2023 - 9,116,500 https://www.imdb.com/review/rw9116500/ - - - Bot/AI generated reviews? 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@ACT_1​ Yeah those details are worth noting as two days ago, the account had a different name, no bio and only about 150 reviews for one day's worth of posting them. Hope it gets deleted and they get fed up of trying it.

@VonPunk​ 😀 ? ? https://www.google.com/search?q=site:www.imdb.com/user/ur144384572 geitegek's Profile https://www.imdb.com › user "An American Werewolf in London" is a horror-comedy masterpiece that combines witty humor, breathtaking practical effects, and heart-pumping terror. .

Wow 4,500 already, and he's mocking the IMDb staff with his constantly changing usernames at this point, like the last one, "StillGoingStrong" :)

@mbmb​ Dude came 99th in the Top Contributors (May) with his made up AI nonsense, what a joke this site has become, we seem to spend more time reporting and fixing vandalism than anything else these days, I'd be surprised if a single legit manual contributor is happy with the way the site is at all, I know I'm not, IMDb is the laughing stock of the other database sites these days, it's openly mocked and laughed at.

@VonPunk​ Wow, I think they'll keep "investigating" this until he finishes the year as a top 10 contributor for 2023 :)

@VonPunk​ Yeah it seems it's the same person, this user page I linked in my first post has a different username, avatar and description now: https://www.imdb.com/user/ur163757445/ His username was The Movie Machine, he was saying he's an "entity" and had a CPU avatar, now he's trying to portray it as a human it seems. I don't understand what IMDb is considering here really. A review is your opinion after you watch something, these are clearly not "reviews" because the algorithm clearly does not "watch" them and writes an opinion based on it. It just generates them.

@mbmb​ Yeah it's hopefully a topic they are internally working on. I mean they did seem to stop the reviews being posted before they were rumbled here but that was after over 3200 got added. I posted back in Jan'22 when AI submissions were being discussed that soon as bad actors got in on the AI act it could turn into a big problem and I hope they've been looking into finding ways to stop that for at least as long, if it's even possible to do so.

@jeorj_euler​ 😀 CBS News Sunday Morning (TV Series) 01-29-2023 "deep fake" videos that mimic a person's face and voice https://www.imdb.com/title/tt25385282/reference/ CBS News Sunday Morning Creating a "lie detector" for deepfakes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bf7AS1HBeaM 5:36 artificial intelligence software used to produce fake videos and photographs Add {i} to photos for "Content Credentials" These could be faked too? - - - aiphoto15 Joined Monday May 15 2023 https://community-imdb.sprinklr.com/users/64622affc18213557fc458aa 404 The page could not be found Monday May 15 2023 .

At some point, anything that a person or an algorithm is able to "imagine" could be manifested photorealistically and kinetorealistically. I do estimate that public key encryption could help to some degree. Cameras could be designed that cryptographically sign every frame or every collection of frames of the digital negative image produced by its optical processing mechanisms. We would be able to trust such digital cameras that don't have any image manipulation subsystem built into them, but it does beg the question of what to do about cracked keys or sights within the field of view that are flat imitations of depth rather than what the ordinarily be captured in the view. Thankfully, for the foreseeable future, there won't be such things as "holographic" illusions (say, like Mysterio's) that could be plausibly fool a human being partaking in direct observation.

"CBS Sunday Morning" Jan 22 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt25385278/reference/ Put real writers out of a job? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MZs44gSIwg 8:02 https://chatgpt.pro/ <===<< Google "AI Writing" About 5,250,000 results (0.46 seconds) - - - "CBS Sunday Morning" Jan 15 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt25817162/reference/ Put real artists out of a job? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s11k0yAA8ZQ 6:53 Google "AI artwork" About 354,000 results (0.46 seconds) .

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Have you met David Johnson yet, ACT_1? He is the forum's latest fast-rising star of unreliable response posts. The creator of this thread believes that the bot may be a sneaky one, like the kind that edits its own posts to include hyperlinks to obscure websites.

@jeorj_euler​ 😀 No - need to look @ more I've been watching SilverScreenSage1939 above .

@ACT_1​ Thanks for keeping track of the details of that reviewer. I see he's actually surpassed the number of reviews added where he was originally rumbled by IMDb. Aside from the profile and name changes listed above I noticed he's also changed the style of how the reviews look at least 3 times to try avoid detection as well which so far is working for him, or maybe staff have read this thread and are letting him work really hard for longer before pulling the rug out.

@jeorj_euler​ 😀 davidjohnson85 Joined May 19th, 2023 https://community-imdb.sprinklr.com/users/6467befc0ea61f1fc02dc27f 404 The page could not be found May 20th, 2023 Wayback Machine http://web.archive.org/web/20230520005511/https://community-imdb.sprinklr.com/users/6467befc0ea61f1fc02dc27f .

@VonPunk​ Given that the new account was not even blocked to submit reviews at this point, I'm afraid they'll end up saying "we decided to allow these because we don't care about the integrity of anything on this site" I also think the first account was probably deleted by the user himself, not by staff, because he was not able to submit any new reviews, he probably deleted it to continue from a non-blocked account, and it works actually.

@mbmb​ Sadly you may be right, I think the site being slowly over taken by contributor AI's is going to destroy the site eventually if they can find no way to control what comes in from them, could some troll program an AI to add a person to every title on the entire site or a 100 random people, could every page be vandalised in some way in a short period of time, is there any defence in place against that. We can only hope for a good outcome or positive answers to this thread and those hypothetical questions in future.

AI versus AI is what seems inevitable.