Fuck, I hate the new generation of blog comment spambots.
See – some years ago, there was an XKCD comic about training spambots to make more and more accurate and relevant comments that ended with “What will you do when spammers train their bots to make automated constructive and helpful comments?” and “MISSION. FUCKING. ACCOMPLISHED.”
it was really pretty funny at the time
But now with LLMs it’s real easy to make spambots make reasonable comments that are actually talking about your blog posts. They’re on topic, they’re cogent, they’re positive – of course – 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 all…
…the ad is the only reason they’re there…
…and you can’t not know that…
…so…
…it’s all clockwork and empty, and…
…sorry, Randall. Turns out it’s not Mission. Fucking. Accomplished. It’s more Mission. Unfortunately. Accomplished, and the punchline this time is that the mission itself kinda sucked.
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