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AI slop posts from new free accounts?

  • December 15, 2025
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In many groups, I came to notice some posts that seem to be AI generated from new user accounts. They look inofensive, but I don’t get the point of them and there seem to be no category to report them. They’re not spam, not dangerous, not harassment, not hateful, not misleading, selling nothing, etc.. 

Since they have no activities (or sometimes a tiny one), they’re not building social capital, selling coaching, farming kudos. So I wonder if bots aren’t slowly infiltrating the system and stay quiet for a while or testing behaviour of Strava users?

Example of post:
“””

Where the road leads, good company follows 🚴‍♀️

I’ve always loved cycling not just for the views or the movement, but for the people it brings along the way.
Good rides, good conversations, shared effort… that’s my kind of connection.
If you enjoy being on two wheels, we’ll probably get along just fine.
“””
 

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Jan_Mantau
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  • Superuser
  • December 15, 2025

What groups are you referring to?


Jana_S
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  • Superuser
  • December 15, 2025

This is happening also in FB groups. These fake profiles seem “innocent” but they attempt to engage users, drag them into private conversations, and then involve in (mostly) crypto scam. The pattern is so obvious that in a running group I’m moderating (1M+ members), we're directly banning such profiles whenever we spot them or when a member reports them. I think Strava should too, for the sake of everyone's safety. 


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  • December 15, 2025

I am also seeing more and more of these each day. Sometimes I open the profile to find the exact same activity posted day after day with photos that are pretty clearly not from the place they are posted (I don’t think Reno, NV has a Little Thailand where they drive on the left). So I report them as “impersonation” and Strava support emails me and says they’ve “taken appropriate actions”. YMMV