Day: October 11, 2025

So-called "Artificial Intelligence," or AI, is insinuating itself into every aspect of our lives these days. This increasing proliferation of computer generated content (i.e., slop) is largely at the behest of huge corporations who have spent billions gathering personal data via online tracking, social media, cell phones, and an increasing number of so-called "smart" devices. Much of the data used to train AI models has been taken without permission from creatives and put toward the aim of generating an avalanche of artificially created content. This content then finds its way into advertisements, apps, services marketed to replace human creators, and, naturally, various types of spam. And that spam is increasingly finding its way onto online blog posts. Continue reading "AI-composed spam in my blog’s comments"