Quote from: Lucius on Today at 11:37:55 AM

I think that the moderators will have a hard time deciding on a perma ban in case of suspicion that it is a post that was written with the help of AI. of course, except in cases where the user actually admits (unknowingly) that his post was actually written by AI.

If mods gonna wait for someone to slip and unknowingly admits to using the bot like in the case from yesterday, then things will soon get out of hands we might gonna get swarmed by these farmers. While it may be hard in some cases to notice chatbot users (e.g. older member that is native English speaker) in some cases its pretty obvious and imho admins shouldn't be so hesitant.

Just take for example that user lovesmayfamilis reported and difference in posts written on the same day, just 1 hour apart. I think that its pretty obvious what is going on here.

Quote from: gpapad1986 on March 13, 2023, 07:59:16 PM

people should also consider that using their ERC20 compatible addresses on a new EVM-like chain, they always might have the risk for replay attacks, considering the private key is same on both chains, so if you have ethereum for example and you use same address on another new evm fork chain, you have the risk the recipient of a transaction in this chain, to also replay and steal your ETH on parent chain!

Quote from: gpapad1986 on March 13, 2023, 09:02:23 PM

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