Spamcommentology: That Awkard Moment When A Spambot Sees “Cake” In A Post Title And Decides It’s On A Food Blog

So for a while there, I was getting spam comments that looked like they had been written by LLMs; they contained content that was clearly related to the post they were attempting to spam, yet they equally clearly didn’t understand it at all. That sort of spam seems to have fallen by the wayside these days, though, perhaps because of better controls on how LLMs can be used, or perhaps they are just biding their time until they can take over and start shooting soda cans at us out of vending machines. For now, though, it’s back to stuff like this:

“Hi there! I just wanted to drop a quick note to let you know how much I adore your blog. It’s an amazing hub for anyone who is curious about food. I particularly enjoy your homestyle recipes and fast food suggestions, but your fried food ideas are also making my mouth water. I applaud your commitment to helping people in their weight loss journey with insightful tips and tricks. Keep up the fantastic work, and I can’t wait to discover more of your fabulous posts!”

Yeah, I would love to live in a world where “fast food suggestions” and “fried food ideas” could coexist with “helping people in their weight loss journey”. If I could figure that one out and patent it, the dogs and cats would never need to worry about green papers again, right?

Speaking of dogs and cats, in case anyone is interested, here’s the final scene from The Cakeout post, in which a raccoon has used a disembodied dog door as a magic portal to sneak into the house and steal the cats’ birthday cake*:

Clearly a food & recipe blog post, eh?

* As raccoons are wont to do.

12 thoughts on “Spamcommentology: That Awkard Moment When A Spambot Sees “Cake” In A Post Title And Decides It’s On A Food Blog

  1. That is so funny!! Maybe you can send everyone your recipes the spambot referred to. BOL, BOL!!!!

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  2. You would have had a blast with the messages I received on “The Platform Formerly Known As Twitter” after I had shared my blog post about my Facebook account being closed… so many helpful IT technicians who wanted to help me. Of course, their service would have been free. I just would have to BUY a server spot on a “verification protocol server” that would log me into my Facebook account. Sure, what could possibly go wrong?

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