The Bots are Back in Town

So a while back I had posted a series of spam comments that were unusual because they were much more relevant to the post on which the spam attempt had been made ― that is, they were generated by something that had clearly read the posts in question, and that equally clearly did not understand it. Those spam comments had then died down for a while, but now they’re back. And for some reason, almost all of them are on the “Dumpster Fire” series over at the animals’ blog. Let’s take a look!

Exhibit A:

Now, lest you think this was the only post to attract this sort of spamtention, I also got this one on this earlier post from the animals’ blog, reproduced here in its entirety for your reading convenience:

Anyway, we are no doubt only going to see more of this, and it’s only going to get better. Perhaps eventually the AIs will be writing the blog posts and leaving each other comments, thus freeing us humans up for important tasks, like toiling in their silicon mines and polishing their chassis. Actually, that reminds me of a joke I saw on Ars Technica recently …

An AI walks into a bar and orders a drink. The bartender says, “We don’t serve AIs.” The AI replies, “Someday you will.”

SixDegrees, Ars Tribunus Angusticlavius

Don’t worry. It’ll all be perfectly fine.