Spambots grow brains!
Submitted by Joshua Hesketh on Sat, 17/05/2008 - 18:14.
Hmm, so recently on two of our blog articles[1][2] there has been some interesting spam in the comment sections[3].
As you can see the messages could nearly be mistaken for a legitimate (but somewhat confused) comment. Clearly spammers are looking at the content, following links and looking at what links to my blog posts to determine (somewhat) relevant spam. Whichever method they are determining what to post, it's still quite obvious that it is spam. But it does make you wonder how long it'll be until spam and artificial intelligence is good enough to post information as realistically as humans? In my opinion, when this happens, we'll actually have useful spam. It'll be just like wikipedia, without the editors[4].
(PS: They also got past my CAPTCHA!...[5]).
- 1.
- What can Linux do for the Average Joe?
- 2.
- Diving into GNOME Development
- 3.
- The spam has since been removed.
- 4.
- Disclaimer: Wikipedia's editors rock and ensure the information is accurate. No spambot could do this!
- 5.
- Shock, horror!
| Attachment | Size |
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| spam_eg1.png | 61.05 KB |
| spam-eg2.png | 71.38 KB |
clearly you need to
Submitted by Russian Intelligence Agency (not verified) on Sun, 18/05/2008 - 10:12.clearly you need to 'reCAPTCHA' so that we can no longer tell you about India's engineering feats and what the P in PHP also refers to.
That is just SPAM in training
Submitted by swizlecki (not verified) on Sun, 18/05/2008 - 21:50.That is just SPAM in training mode. The programmer is testing how well his SPAM program is working that is why there is no real point to the messages. When the programmer can see the SPAM program posting the messages he/she can then sell it on to the buyer as a working product.
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