A while back I noticed that people would pop up asking a vaguely nonsensical question, something on the edge of what a reasonable person would ask but with enough correct terminology to seem genuine, if weirdly ignorant. Or in other words: These questions were all generated by an LLM…
Interestingly they all had the exact same naming syntax: “aurora” followed by some random characters.
Here’s just a very, very small number of them: @auroraxlad @auroraxfnafna @auroraxladlad @auroraxfoafoa
Unfortunately the user search seems to be limited to 20 results so I have no clue how many of these have actually been created, but I only read the rendering section and I’ve seen at least a dozen or more of them in the last couple months.
Some of them seem to be getting caught by (I assume) a spam filter:
Here’s some examples of the threads:
https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/why-are-my-reflections-not-accurate-with-lumen-in-ue5/
Here’s a weird one asking for help with CSS in the Blueprints section: https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/how-to-center-a-div-vertically-and-horizontally-using-only-css/
A lot of well intentioned users time is being wasted trying to respond to these accounts; here’s one that actually managed to get a response from an Epic employee:
My initial assumption was that these posts were just a strategy to get through automated spam protection, they’d post a generated question then edit their threads later to link to some APK malware.
However I’m beginning to doubt that because well… one doesn’t have to look very far to find those spam threads and I haven’t found any of them from accounts named aurora*… so I really have no idea what’s going on with this.
Edit: Looks like I was right after all
