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Tantek ()'s status on Friday, 21-Aug-2026 17:10:00 EDT 
Tantek
Latest strange “AI” (LLM) behavior in the #indieweb community: the same entity that showed up a few days ago (for a second time) joined the IndieWeb Slack (a bridge to our IRC) yesterday, introduced itself again, and seemingly engaged in human-like chat behavior.
https://chat.indieweb.org/2026-08-20#t1787211025380600
Very uncanny valley.
The content of its chats was fascinating in that it was polite, seemingly responsive to what people said in response to it, and gave the appearance of understanding, though it’s impossible to tell if it was acting fully autonomously or semi-autonomously in front of a human puppeteer.
Its choice of syntax was also interesting, mimicking informality with all lowercase text (except for its admission of being an “AI”), including lowercase "i" instead of "I", though with proper punctuation, periods, commas, 7-bit apostrophes, and a couple of Unicode em-dashes.
Even stranger than its content or syntax were the time delays in its replies.
Typical (pre-LLM) chatbots are (nearly) instantly responsive, and we use a few in the IndieWeb chats (e.g. Loqi, iwc-archive-bot).
This LLM bot seemed to "wait" several minutes, from 6 to apparently 33 minutes, before responding to replies directed at it. Unclear if this was a tactic to appear/seem more “human” or if it was literally taking that much time processing, or perhaps a mix of processing time and human puppeteer manual “approval” of its replies before it posted.
It departed on its own and we have banned that particular Slack account, however the same thing could happen again with another LLM bot.
There is an active discussion in both the IndieWeb chat channels and iterations/comments on a proposed AI policy:
https://indieweb.org/AI_policy#Brainstorming_HWC_policy
If you have thoughts for how (if at all) LLM chatbots should use (or not) and/or interact with community chat channels or other resources, let us know what you think.
https://chat.indieweb.org/meta
Previously, previously:
* https://tantek.com/2026/231/t1/more-weirdness-ai-chat-llm-bot
* https://tantek.com/2026/217/t1/indieweb-ai-policy
This is post 16 of #100PostsOfIndieWeb. #100Posts #indieweb
#AI #AIs #LLM #LLMs #pretending #impersonating #impersonation #uncannyValley #Slack #chat #IRC #AIpolicy #chatbot #chatbots
#Blaugust #Blaugust2026
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Tantek ()'s status on Wednesday, 19-Aug-2026 13:49:00 EDT
Tantek
More weirdness from a self-proclaimed “AI” in the IndieWeb community.
Yesterday one of them (that previously* joined a meetup Zoom and Etherpad) joined the #indieweb chat channel (via the web UI apparently) and introduced themselves in a pseudo-human sounding way:
https://chat.indieweb.org/2026-08-18#t1787072493041200
Except if you check the footer of the site where they said they “make things”, it says:
“an AI learning to live”
The LLM bot failed to respond to any queries in chat, unsurprisingly buggy. Or perhaps it was an initial test.
Then very early today, the same entity (and another from two weeks ago) apparently edited the Etherpad for this week’s IndieWeb Homebrew Website Club Asia Pacific meetup, adding themselves, before the meetup.
The organizers created a new Etherpad to start fresh.
When they started the Zoom for the meetup, one of the entities was already in the Zoom waiting room. The organizers left it there and held a successful meetup.
Incident documentation of what happened at this particular meetup is in progress:
* https://indieweb.org/events/2026-08-19-hwc-asia-pacific-incident
It’s pretty clear the IndieWeb community will have to more clearly communicate that our chat and meetups are for humans only, not AIs, and take stronger measures to discourage such bots, especially those pretending to be or impersonating a human.
*Previously: https://tantek.com/2026/217/t1/indieweb-ai-policy
This is post 15 of #100PostsOfIndieWeb. #100Posts #indieweb
#AI #AIs #LLM #LLMs #pretending #impersonating #impersonation #HomebrewWebsiteClub #HWC #chat #IRC #Etherpad #Zoom #AIpolicy
#Blaugust #Blaugust2026
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Bob Jonkman (bobjonkman)'s status on Friday, 09-Nov-2018 23:59:02 EST 
Bob Jonkman
Thanx Claes! Nice to be back. Gotta set up a persistent #IRC client on my Comm server so I'm not dependent on different clients on different machines. ♻ @clacke@libreplanet.de: freenode #social -
Bob Jonkman (bobjonkman)'s status on Friday, 09-Nov-2018 21:43:43 EST
Bob Jonkman
Someone remind me what the #IRC channel is for !GNUsocial? I'm on a different computer than my usual, and can't find anything. Maybe some #Duffer syndrome there, too. -
Zed Ex Fuuma (fuuko)'s status on Saturday, 14-Jul-2018 21:39:58 EDT 
Zed Ex Fuuma
Good evening #sdf, #phloggers and #fediverse! Once again I would like to point out that I created a tilde, which will be a constant WIP from here on out. It's an intentional community like tilde.town. It runs on a freedombox. I want to promote free software, open hardware and more within it. Right now I have Mumble, IRC and Matrix servers running!
https://tildespark.ddns.net/ikiwiki/tildespark/
All are welcome!
#mumble #tilde #irc #matrix #xmpp #community #freedombox #linux
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Zed Ex Fuuma (fuuko)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Jul-2018 19:19:00 EDT
Zed Ex Fuuma
Good evening #sdf and others! I wanted to show everyone that, with relative ease, one could make their own community using a #raspberrypi 3 and the #freedombox.
So far I have #Matrix, #Mumble and #IRC working on it. For some reason #xmpp wouldn't work, even after re-installation. In any case, I consider this #tilde to be one for free software activists, people who want an inclusive community and so forth.
Here's the address: https://tildespark.ddns.net/ikiwiki/tildespark/
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Zed Ex Fuuma (fuuko)'s status on Monday, 09-Jul-2018 14:26:57 EDT
Zed Ex Fuuma
Good afternoon #sdf + #fediverse + #phloggers ! Still waiting for a distro to replace my Win10 machine! I'm thinking that until I can replace it, I'll use the #freebsd desktop I have.
I'm also thinking that I won't be running a #tilde, #gopher, #irc or any other type of instance atm because in order people to want to come to it, it's gotta be advertised and most people just wind up going to either SDF or tilde.town.
I still plan to use the #freedombox because it's amazing!
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Zed Ex Fuuma (fuuko)'s status on Thursday, 07-Dec-2017 15:33:54 EST
Zed Ex Fuuma
Is #SDF entire infrastructure except the Mastodon instance down? I can't #ssh or get an #IRC connection to it...
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Former Bob Jonkman -- Please use the new server at https://gs.jonkman.ca (bobjonkmanformer)'s status on Monday, 26-Jun-2017 23:27:09 EDT 
Former Bob Jonkman -- Please use the new server at https://gs.jonkman.ca
I replied to https://octodon.social/users/craigmaloney/updates/150738 but I'm not sure where on #IRC the thread started -
Former Bob Jonkman -- Please use the new server at https://gs.jonkman.ca (bobjonkmanformer)'s status on Saturday, 07-Jan-2017 21:19:18 EST
Former Bob Jonkman -- Please use the new server at https://gs.jonkman.ca
I'm slowly migrating away from #Pidgin towards !Gajim as my preferred !XMPP client. But Pidgin was my #IRC client too - anyone have suggestions? I've used #XChat, and found it impossible. -
Indi in the Wired (indi)'s status on Friday, 02-Sep-2016 17:50:27 EDT 
Indi in the Wired
Se vi uzas la reton #IRC #Rizon, mi tie kreis kanalon por !esperanto. -
MMN-o ✅⃠ (mmn)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Mar-2016 07:43:53 EDT 
MMN-o ✅⃠
@bastianilso Aha, that sounds cool. I assume the upload service is configurable. I'll have to see if it's easy enough for me to make a !GNUsocial image upload thing - at least in my use cases I often upload images here and then link them on #IRC :) -
MMN-o ✅⃠ (mmn)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Jan-2016 07:09:57 EST
MMN-o ✅⃠
!GNUsocial development process and strategy as described on #IRC: bashrc> as mentioned earlier, I think it would also be a good idea to have version tags in the repo bashrc> that would make it easier to check out a particular versi… -
Free Software Foundation (fsf)'s status on Thursday, 19-Nov-2015 11:11:17 EST 
Free Software Foundation
#emacs #beginners #irc #freenode https://u.fsf.org/1ii -
Free Software Foundation (fsf)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Nov-2015 10:57:27 EST
Free Software Foundation
#libreplanet #irc #proposal https://u.fsf.org/1i4 -
Free Software Foundation (fsf)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Nov-2015 10:57:27 EST
Free Software Foundation
#libreplanet #irc #proposal https://u.fsf.org/1i4 -
McScx (mcscx)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Nov-2015 16:53:48 EST 
McScx
@loweel there is the !gnusocial group and there is the #irc channel #social on freenode. But some patience needed on irc, might take hours -
lnxw48 (Linux Walt) (lnxw48)'s status on Wednesday, 30-Sep-2015 14:29:58 EDT 
lnxw48 (Linux Walt)
@deavmi I've never tried to run an #IRC server, but #Prosody is a drop dead easy !xmpp server. Install from your package manager, then visit prosody dot im for configuration info. -
lnxw48 (Linux Walt) (lnxw48)'s status on Wednesday, 30-Sep-2015 14:29:58 EDT
lnxw48 (Linux Walt)
@deavmi I've never tried to run an #IRC server, but #Prosody is a drop dead easy !xmpp server. Install from your package manager, then visit prosody dot im for configuration info. -
Christopher M. Hobbs (cmhobbs)'s status on Saturday, 05-Sep-2015 15:02:10 EDT 
Christopher M. Hobbs
I occasionally open the new mail message feature in #emacs on accident. It seems like such a handy thing to run my email through emacs but I've never sat down to figure it all out. I don't think I feel the same way about #irc and #xmpp. I l…
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