Blogger Suspects Bounty-Hunting Bots Come from a Stanford Class Assignment

gleech · x · 2026-09-11

In a follow-up, gleech adds observations about the bots submitting AI text to his bounty page: the timing suggests some Stanford teacher assigned the class to "get a bot to make some money." Notably, the messages are uniformly polite and do read the fine print.

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