The Commentapocalypse Is Nigher

> "This first wave of AI spam is easy enough to identify — they all vaguely agree with something you said in the blog post, and then link to some shady, scammy AI video thing."

Apart from the 'AI video thing' this type of spam is something I wrote about in November 27, 2007.

https://akismet.com/blog/it-really-is-spam/ the first part of which is "Back when spamming started it was a very crude business. Comments left would consist of many links around one subject – “Buy my porn” or “Buy my pills.” These posts were very obviously spam and blog owners deleted them when they saw them. At some point the spammers changed tactics.

Everyone likes a compliment and we all like to think that what we write is interesting — the spammers are targeting that vanity."