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by erikschoster • 22 days ago

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erikschoster• 22 days ago

Bandcamp seems to be somewhat overrun with this LLM spam. I became aware of it because there's an account impersonating me with an LLM-generated review of my music which is weirdly specific and surreal.

The purpose seems to be to drive traffic to an advertising marketplace website. All the impersonating sites link to the covers.pics website which has no root page, but serves various paths linked in these bandcamp spam pages.

I contacted bandcamp twice in the last two weeks about removing it, but I don't know if there are any humans left there. They just replaced the rest of their engineering team with AI yesterday according to a blog post by one of their former engineers.

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