Forum admin’s madness, AI edition: the old Physics Forums site fills with generated slop

@dgerard So a forum owner:
decides to use llms to reply to unreplied posts (‽)
without labeling them as llm-generated (‽‽)
backdates the replies (‽‽‽)
attributes the replies to existing users without their consent (‽‽‽‽)

Madness doesn't even begin to describe it.

Bernhardt tweeted in January 2025: “The dead internet theory is coming to fruition.” And he’s doing his part.

.... we live in a farce