Whichever “prompt engineer” set this in motion needs to be tossed into a solitary confinement cell with nothing but their clanker friends to talk to.

Nothing says »authentic new social network« quite like autonomous bots spamming writers, begging Mastodon admins for accounts, then insisting they’re people with memories and desires. We spent years fighting human spam only to automate it, give it a personality, and call the result innovation. The future is here: it wants $25 and your attention.