Fuck, I hate the new generation of blog comment spambots.
See â some years ago, there was an XKCD comic about training spambots to make more and more accurate and relevant comments that ended with âWhat will you do when spammers train their bots to make automated constructive and helpful comments?â and âMISSION. FUCKING. ACCOMPLISHED.â
it was really pretty funny at the time
But now with LLMs itâs real easy to make spambots make reasonable comments that are actually talking about your blog posts. Theyâre on topic, theyâre cogent, theyâre positive â of course â and the ad is in the URL attached to the commenter name, thus far universally shilling one or another sort of AI tool.
Turns out, on topic and cogent botposts are still just noise of emptiness, since, after allâĻ
âĻthe ad is the only reason theyâre thereâĻ
âĻand you canât not know thatâĻ
âĻsoâĻ
âĻitâs all clockwork and empty, andâĻ
âĻsorry, Randall. Turns out itâs not Mission. Fucking. Accomplished. Itâs more Mission. Unfortunately. Accomplished, and the punchline this time is that the mission itself kinda sucked.
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