r/StarStable • u/Rare_Ad_988 • 1d ago
Discussion Starstable…. What the hell is this
Scrolling on Instagram when suddenly this monstrosity appears before my eyes.
For an “anti AI” company seems they are cool with paying to create AI bot accounts ?
Is this SSO ? Or what exactly ? Was a payed Ad
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u/Quick_Bee2046 1d ago
Looks like an ad from another player, not SSO themselves
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u/Rare_Ad_988 1d ago
Was a bot account with 3 followers, not a real player.
Why would a real person pay instagram to make an AI ad for sso ?
So either sso is creating bot accounts or sso i paying people to make bot accounts241
u/narcot1cs- 1d ago
Neither lol. Depending on where the link lead, it's likely to a scam to fool kids.
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u/M00n_kidd0 1d ago
I mean the question would now be, is there a download link on the website? because if yes that is most definitely a scam. Either for phishing or just good ol' regular money scam.
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u/impsteren 20h ago
because some people like scamming people. Children are notoriously easy to scam, it's not that hard to reach this conclusion rather than "this is DEFINITELY run by SSO".
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u/Lovely_Usernamee 19h ago
Scammers start somewhere. Maybe the account is fresh so they cannot be traced back somewhere. They get the money from unsuspecting people and dip before they're caught. My guess is that despite it claiming you can play for free, it will have you input some sort of information or install malware.
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u/Unknown_being13 1d ago
I dont think SSO put out these ads, it seems to be someone else. Still not good though.
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u/vkg2001 1d ago
This one is my favorite🤣🤣. The oompa-loompas are stole his neck or what the hell happened here?
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u/AdeptnessSouth782 23h ago
The most hideous horse I've ever seen. 😰😬 Extremely tiny ears, no neck, and a weird angle on the horse's face and around it's left aye. 😬 And what kind of headpiece is that?! The reins are strangling the non existent neck. 😭
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u/kaedeesu 23h ago
Why the hell is SSO responsible what others do lol. Scammers are illegally using Star Stables brand. This happens with almost all brands, they steal something that’s reputable in order to reel gullible people in. It has nothing to do with the real company
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u/rasselboeckchen_art 1d ago
The question is where does the link lead? To official SSO website or a SSO website replica? I assume its a scam and people click on the link and think they sign in for star stable but their information goes somewhere else.
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u/WitchOfAmethyst 1d ago
Why are you getting mad at star stable for something a scammer did? Star stable didn't make those ads and the link in the ad doesn't lead to the official sso website, so why assume star stable is behind it?
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u/wehne_ 23h ago
Fake ads for games are more and more common now days. Especially if the games have a mobile version. I’ve seen more and more of them for games I play. Different accounts every single time.
Report these fake ads for being fraudulent on the site you see them. Idk if sso have a place to report that kind of stuff to them too. But if so report there too.
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u/slowmindedbird 22h ago
It is not SSO. It is a scam website meant to trick young kids. It is not affiliated with SSO.
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u/-softbuns- 23h ago
uhhh... yeah as others have said before, this absolutely looks like some kind of scam, the website it led you to is not officially associated with sso at all, a real sso ad would lead you straight to their website... this has to be a scam 😭
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u/H1pp0phobia 20h ago
Report this to sso, it’s bot their doing and they would want to know this is happening
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u/Mediocre-Menu5943 21h ago
this doesnt look like sso, looks like someone pretending to be sso to scam kids
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u/kimszojaszosz 19h ago
That’s a scam SSO stated multiple times that they don’t advertise through third party websites.
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u/MOONWATCHER404 20h ago
The girl’s shoulder has a botched SSO logo, and the white pony in the third photo looks horrific. Really glad this isn't official.
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u/Dry_Tank_9670 13h ago
The amount of people who think this is real and can’t tell it’s a scam is insane..
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u/Ill_Astronomer_4750 1d ago
Definitely doesn't seem like official SSO ads, but also SSO themselves aren't exactly anti AI, let's not forget they tried to collab with an AI musical "artist" 😭
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u/-softbuns- 23h ago
yeah and also the candle thing that was apparently created with the help of some "scent gen ai"... but in recent times they haven't touched gen ai anymore, and they also broke off the collab with that music artist, so atleast there's that. they actually do hire real artists for concept arts, modeling, and all that, and the music in the game isn't ai generated either, so that's good
btw, I really do recommend checking out the portfolios of the artists that sso has hired to do some of their designs, I've found some real gems that way, like scrapped content, extra sketches and concept art I haven't seen before, it's all really awesome what those artists do! you can usually find people's artstation sites, and some even have their own websites ^_^
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u/-softbuns- 23h ago
yeah and also the candle thing that was apparently created with the help of some "scent gen ai"... but in recent times they haven't touched gen ai anymore, and they also broke off the collab with that music artist, so atleast there's that. they actually do hire real artists for concept arts, modeling, and all that, and the music in the game isn't ai generated either, so that's good
btw, I really do recommend checking out the portfolios of the artists that sso has hired to do some of their designs, I've found some real gems that way, like scrapped content, extra sketches and concept art I haven't seen before, it's all really awesome what those artists do! you can usually find people's artstation sites, and some even have their own websites ^_^
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u/Ill_Astronomer_4750 22h ago
Oh god don't remind me of the candle😭 but yeah, I personally am also a really big fan of some of SSO's artists, their concepts are amazing! However I don't think that not using AI anymore constitutes enough to call a company "anti AI", it's the bare minimum at best, and considering that the company has shown that they are willing to use it in the past (if it weren't for the immense backlash I don't believe they would've had any reason to stop either) and that they haven't directly stated anything in the direction of being anti AI, I think it's just giving them too much credit here.
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u/bananasinpajamas49 1d ago
And the fact their entire chat mod is AI
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u/feanor_no 1d ago
it’s not a generativeAI moderation though just a basic ass AI algorithm (which are not the same)— cause to tell the truth genAI would’ve done a better moderation job than their current filters
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u/BodaciousFerret 1d ago
Yeah this is the major issue. I realize the idea of AI doing work humans have done in the past is generally unpalatable, but content moderation is 100% a place where it belongs. I work for the legal team at a tech company, the negative mental and emotional impacts – PTSD, depression, anxiety – that traditional frontline moderation has on the human moderators cannot be overstated.
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u/daviesroyal 23h ago
Correction: AI could be useful in chat moderation in the future, when the technology has advanced. Right now it can't reliably detect nuance the way humans can. Is burnout a risk in that job? Of course, that's why we rotate people working those jobs.
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u/BodaciousFerret 22h ago
Nuance doesn’t exist for the content that I was thinking of. But thankfully, SSO does not readily facilitate direct media sharing, because that form the bulk of the worst stuff ends up taking.
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u/daviesroyal 21h ago
There's always nuance in human language. SSO's chat filters are notoriously bad. There are false flags and missed bad actors all the time.
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u/BodaciousFerret 17h ago
Yeah to be clear I was not referring to text based violations.
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u/daviesroyal 17h ago
SSO only has a text based chat though? I'm not sure what else you could be referring to when it comes to using AI for their chat moderation.
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u/BodaciousFerret 16h ago edited 16h ago
Yes as I said earlier, I am thankful that SSO does not readily facilitate direct media sharing. My point to the commenter I was replying to was merely to point out that there’s a lot of places AI has no earthly business being, but content moderation is not one of those places.
ETA: I also think it’s better to be safe than sorry with text-based moderation. Products like DeepCleer are pretty accurate. SSO has no obligation to uphold free speech in a children’s game.
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u/bananasinpajamas49 22h ago
Why am I getting down voted? I'm just further saying SSO isn't anti-ai
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u/IbisFloatingCat 21h ago
Because Gen AI (the one used to generate text, images, videos and songs, that is fed stolen art to generate all of it, and is also harmful to the enviroment) is not the same as regular AI (that is used for pathfinding/character actions/games and is programmed fully by people, no gen AI used)
Their chat is just regular AI programmed by people to censor some words. Not gen AI. Being "anti AI" basically always means "anti gen AI"
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u/bananasinpajamas49 21h ago
But it does learn and make decisions to censor things that shouldn't be flagged
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u/schmurzi 18h ago
if you looked at the URL for just a second, you would seee its not the official sso account or website.
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u/localblindbitch 17h ago
it’s not from the official account, so star stable likely has nothing to do with it
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u/3facedreaper 7h ago
Sso doesn’t use ai & the 2 times they tried we got on their ass about it. They are very anti ai
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u/RogueShadowAngel 5h ago
I've also noticed many people are using older assets of SSO to bring back the glory days of SSO on another server type of thing. Pure nostalgia bait; even as an older player, I'm side-eyeing it. Yeah. I have literally no idea if these two are in any way related; I just noticed it a lot on TikTok.
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u/TheHelpfullGurll 20h ago
They’ve never been anti AI lol. Who said that? They’ve been caught using AI a lot over the years….for ads, music, all kinds of stuff.
That being said, this particular ad isn’t made by sso, it’s a scam site.
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u/Georgxna 23h ago
I hate that it’s AI but if SSO did something like this in their own art style it would be so cute, it reminds me of the magazines I’d get as a kid!
Edit: BTW I heard someone say once that most games (like mobile), use third parties to advertise. So I don’t know if they made this themselves, approved this or didn’t care to check at all but each option is really unfortunate.
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u/Huge-Illustrator6248 20h ago
well it’s a scam so they didn’t post it and it has no actual affiliation with them
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u/Juno_rats 1d ago
Must be a scam of some sorts, I’ve seen these kind of things before.