I was just looking at a topic and it got deleted and there was something about a Spam filter deleting it? It was a topic about a syrup stand in Things You‘ve made. Didn‘t see anything sketchy. What‘s up? 
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I am not seeing anything in the spam from you.
You mean this? Oak syrup holder
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Yeah that just randomly popped back up a little bit ago
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I’m guessing this link is the post you were looking at:
There must be some confusion or some misunderstanding, because the Akismet spam filter is a subscription based product made explicitly, and only, for websites that are based on WordPress, which is a free, open source, blogging platform, and it (WordPress) is not the software that powers this V1 website.
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Funny. It’s exactly this post and the message on the banner said it was exactly that filter. I couldn’t make up such a name. 
I use Akismet here in the Discourse forums, and in this case it is not a subscription service, it is included. Although I don’t think you could do much in a forum without it or something very similar, there are sooooo many bots.
That oak syrup post was caught by the filter. Not sure why.
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Well I learned something new.
Have you noticed the new bots that are getting through the filter now though. The weird AI ones that restate a previous post, that almost sounds like a legit reply? If I am having a hard time figuring out if it is real or not that akismet filter is going to take a long time to figure out how to filter them, or we are going to get a lot more normal post filtered out like the one that happened here.
Can you imagine how great an internet would be without all the bots doing crazy random spammy/deceitful stuff. Everything would be some much faster, and email and socials would be so much more awesome than they already are.
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100%, I wonder how much bandwidth and CPU cycles are wasted on processing all of this stuff? Talk about going green, how much less energy would a AWS or google datacenter need if it didn’t have to deal with all of that?
Philip
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Not just computers. Imagine how much nicer people would be if we weren’t constantly skeptical of all the posts and emails we get.
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Yes, and the whole proliferation of deep fakes … and now YouTube videos that were made by AI, from stem to stern (the selection of footage, video assembly, script writing, and script narration recording).
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There are a whole genre of YT videos that tell you how to make a business on YT using AI generated images and scripts/voiceovers.
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I knew it was happening, but just watched a how-to video on it. Totally doable.
I think it is awful. If you do it, make sure you use an alias because people will hate it.
It’s really annoying when you’re searching for something like a review of a specific product and these AI reviews come up. They don’t actually know anything. They just make review like statements.
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Ugh. One of the things that I do is read submissions to a speculative fiction magazine to decide if they might buy it.
Some of the AI written ones get past the first read, but we’re learning to identify them. I start to wonder if we might be able to train an AI to filter out AI written submissions, but the absurdity of the prospect makes me shudder.
I do kind of wonder if it’s fair to get an AI to “tighten” an original story, or to correct it for grammar. Or maybe even get a rough draft from an AI and reshape it yourself. Any of these would be much harder to filter, so it’s probably being done even if it isn’t fair.
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Yeah, I would never do anything like that. I’d probably never do any of it, but if I did, I’d never post unless it was really good. I don’t see it happening.
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This is being done. It needs to be in secret though. If you let the first AI train against the filter, it will be able to pass eventually. This is coming full circle back to on-topic.
This is the real future of it, IMO. We will be converted to designers and editors. No one will want something with a generic prompt like, “write me some sci fi”. But they will be able to add flesh to an idea and a direction. But the flesh will have issues and we’ll have to edit it after that initial draft. Like it or not, this is where it is going.
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We’ll know AI has gone too far when all the lowriders and mpcncs setup their own forum and complain that we’re forever tweaking their grub screws.
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Canadian intelligence trying to suppress anything about oak syrup. 
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