Oh, no – it’s becoming self aware
In case you can’t read that, it says:
Scrolling through that massive blogroll with over 100 links from Zombie Reagan to XKCD, I felt like I was back in the early 2000s internet.
Zombie Reagan is the first link in the left sidebar, XKCD is the last. BUT it stopped before the archive links. So it’s identified the blogroll (and knows what a blogroll is), has repeated the first and last links and possibly recognized it’s all early 2000s stuff (though that might be a lucky hit).
It’s here to advertise a game called Fruit Ninja, apparently, but making a fairly good imitation of an actual reader. Most spam we’re getting (oh, yes – we’re still getting tons daily) is of the old, dumb variety (no lack of buttsex offers, thenkyouverymuch). A few of them are like this, smelling of a specialist AI.
I’ve always said we’d be in trouble when spammers bothered to spellcheck. This is worse.
Posted: May 11th, 2026 under personal.
Comments: 8
Comments
Comment from Some Vegetable
Time: May 11, 2026, 4:19 pm
Kinda only sorta somewhat tangentially not too far point, I have an iPhone with an AT&T spam filter. It just popped up with a new message after a called which my filter identified as Spam:
“iPhone has asked the called to identify himself and give a reason for calling”
There was no message left, nor did the caller identify himself.
Dueling A.I. systems anybody?
Comment from Jon
Time: May 11, 2026, 7:14 pm
Spam spam spam AIeggs and spam. Yummy.
Comment from Uncle AL
Time: May 11, 2026, 7:50 pm
Spam spam spam AIeggs and spam and buttsex. Yucky.
Comment from durnedyankee
Time: May 11, 2026, 10:47 pm
There is nothing wrong with SPAM!
I love spam!
(waits for viking chorus)
Comment from Rich Rostrom
Time: May 12, 2026, 2:04 am
The potential and therefore the danger of AI is enormous. Recently AI discovered an extremely dangerous Linux vulnerability that affects every distro since 2017. In about an hour of scan time against the code base of one subsystem. Fortunately, it was AI used by white hats.
You ain’t seen nothin yet.
Comment from Pupster
Time: May 12, 2026, 7:13 pm
It is getting harder and harder to spot the clankers, I just assume it’s all fake at this point.
Comment from Pupster
Time: May 12, 2026, 7:13 pm
It is getting harder and harder to spot the clankers, I just assume it’s all fake at this point. LACE WIGS!
Comment from aelf
Time: May 17, 2026, 2:15 pm
Not much point in the machines taking over if they’re just going to the same thing faster.
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Beware: more than one link in a comment is apt to earn you a trip to the spam filter, where you will remain -- cold, frightened and alone -- until I remember to clean the trap. But, hey, without Akismet, we'd be up to our asses in...well, ass porn, mostly.<< carry me back to ol' virginny