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Yikes! I just got over 1200 comments all pointing to various subdomains of e–pics.com. Even with mt-blacklist it takes a while to delete them. Without it I would have been stuffed. The master blacklist doesn’t include this URL – add it if you’ve got mt-blacklist! My blacklist, btw, is public.
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This morning I received the copy-edited version of a paper I recently submitted to a journal. This is always cause for celebration, another step towards publication accomplished! But this time the copy-editor wasn’t human, it was an AI. We have undertaken a light text edit using the tool Paperpal Preflight; […]
At last week’s AI STORIES workshop, Gabriele de Seta led a workshop exploring Butterflies.ai, a social media platform where all the users are AIs. Gathering a group of researchers in a room for a few hours to explore and discuss a specific genAI platform turns out to be a really […]
When I studied literature we mostly read the classics. Great literature, the canon. But that’s not necessarily what most people actually read. What if instead of comparing AI-generated literature to the literary canon, we tried comparing it to super popular and commercial forms of literature instead? Like the folkebøker that […]
Synthetic media is a current popular term for AI-generated videos, texts and images. I think the first use was only a few years ago in 2018, but I couldn’t find an overview of its use so thought I’d cobble one together here, mostly because I like Elena Pilipets and her […]
OpenAI plans to charge $20,000 (USD) a month for an AI agent that can do “PhD level research”. Maybe all the PhDs and postdocs recently fired by DOGE should band together and sell their services as “AI agents” – apparently some people will pay more for robots than people. At […]
This is my original Norwegian draft of an essay published in the Danish foreign policy magazine Udenrigs today as part of a special issue on AI and foreign policy. I argue that AI is influencing the way we tell stories, and more seriously, that there is a risk of this […]
mari
Det samme skjedde med meg idag, men jeg har ikke noe black-mail-list! Hvordan fikser jeg meg det? Begynner  bli litt fortvilet.
Francois Lachance
Liz Lawley also reports a spate of spam in comments:
http://mamamusings.net/archives/2004/01/12/ick_ick_ick.php
Could it be that those lists help ranking? I.e. the spammers are really trying to get on a banned list that is shared amongst bloggers in order to boost their ranking with the search engines of the sites they advertise?
HÂkon Styri
Getting on a banned list whith domain and machine names rather than hyperlinks shouldn’t boost their ranking.
The spam, however, may give them some boost, More important, it gives them some accidental clicks. (Some types of sites seems to want ranking, other seems to be happy with accidental clicks.)
Fortunately there are are some efficient anti-spamming tools that can be used for blogs. I’ll send some ideas to the appropriate people.
lisa
I have this weird image of a popstar singing, “It’s raining Spam!” (to the tune of “It’s raining men…”)
Seems like spam-storms are everywhere.
Rory
Jill – the new MT 2.66 upgrade (just announced) should prevent this from happening again: “We’ve included a throttling measure so that comments from the same IP address can only be posted every N seconds, where N is configurable. We’ve also added a measure to automatically ban an IP address based on an abnormal number of comments from the same address in a short period of time.”
fivecats
On the other hand, you might be amused by some of the e-pics posted at my slowly-being-resurrected blog. 🙂
(spam be damned!)
…
Marie
Hvordan funker denne black-listen?Jeg ser jeg m downloade den,men hvor skal jeg lagre den n som jeg sitter p hjemmepc?
Jill
Marie, du henter den ned fra http://www.jayallen.org/comment_spam/ og pakker den ut. S m du ha et SFTP-program. Dvs Secure FTP – f¯r kunne du bruke vanlig FTP men n er det kun Secure. Her er link til et slikt program (eller rettere sagt en klient)
Les bruksanvisningen til MT-blacklist og bruk SFTP for  laste opp filer – det ligner litt p den gang vi installerte bloggene vÂre men er mye enklere 🙂
trond
Simon Willison’s got some interesting articles on comment-spam (and “comment-spam-fighting”). The idea is to make it useless for spammers to spam blogs (and the like).
http://simon.incutio.com/archive/2002/10/28/commentSpammers
GENDER & COMPUTING
Spam
I was also hit by spammers – maybe the same one as made troubles for Jill – cause they left…
jotting
ip-banning
Jill is having problems with spammers – in the thousands! I have a more modest problem – deleted 10 today and 2 yesterday. Have now banned the IP number. Quite time consuming – luckily they had the same IP number
Maris blogg
Helvete
Har ikke fÂtt mer en et par commentspam frem til idag som DET VAR VANNVITTIG MYE… Helvete.. trodde jeg hadde
digme: blogg
Enkelt tiltak mot kommentarspam
Ok, det er ikke enkelt dersom du ikke kan programmere. Det er heller ikke effektivt mot all kommentarspam. Problemet jeg retter meg mot er automatisk posting av kommentarer, dvs spambots.
Weez Blog
better safe
Jill and Liz have been deluged with comment spam in the last week. Me? About 10. So taking the hint have been updating my MT blacklist. Mine is available here, and includes George, Liz and Jill’s. This is the way…
Belzebob's blog
Blacklisted spammers
There’s a war going on. Spamming of blogposts has become very popular the last months and bloggers try their best…