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		By: Philip Sells		</title>
		<link>https://thenewneo.com/2025/02/15/spambot-of-the-day-147/#comment-2788729</link>

		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Philip Sells]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Feb 2025 04:55:03 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[huxley, I notice your artificial friend there doesn&#039;t say what to do about generic &lt;i&gt;criticism&lt;/i&gt; comments, should those turn up. However, I extol it in a mass-produced manner!]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>huxley, I notice your artificial friend there doesn&#8217;t say what to do about generic <i>criticism</i> comments, should those turn up. However, I extol it in a mass-produced manner!</p>
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		By: huxley		</title>
		<link>https://thenewneo.com/2025/02/15/spambot-of-the-day-147/#comment-2788629</link>

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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Feb 2025 17:13:40 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I was curious about this and asked ChatGPT 4.o:
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&lt;i&gt;That’s a great example of classic spambot-generated nonsense—not exactly gibberish, but oddly off-kilter.

Many spam comments like this are template-based, assembled from chunks of prewritten phrases and mixed together with minimal variation.

They often use synonym-swapping (low-grade text spinning), which results in unnatural phrases like &quot;thanks in your sweat.&quot; (likely a bad transformation of &quot;thanks for your hard work.&quot;)

It’s likely a simple, rule-based bot, not a sophisticated AI.

It might be pulling phrases from old forums, blogs, or machine-translated text and remixing them.

The goal isn&#039;t meaningful communication but to sound vaguely real enough to slip past spam filters.

Why Do They Do It?

Link Spam: The bot might later return and edit in a link (or try to post one originally).

SEO Manipulation: Even if there’s no immediate link, posting &quot;engagement&quot; can make a site look more active for search engine rankings.

Testing Filters: Some spambots probe for weak spam detection, seeing what gets through.

Pure Noise: Some attacks just flood sites with nonsense, sometimes as a form of denial-of-service (DoS) attack.

Final Thoughts

It’s not written by a human (at least, not intentionally). It’s not quite AI either, just low-grade automated nonsense meant to slip through filters. Tell your blogger friend to block or filter generic praise comments, as spambots often use those.&lt;/i&gt;]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I was curious about this and asked ChatGPT 4.o:<br />
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<p><i>That’s a great example of classic spambot-generated nonsense—not exactly gibberish, but oddly off-kilter.</p>
<p>Many spam comments like this are template-based, assembled from chunks of prewritten phrases and mixed together with minimal variation.</p>
<p>They often use synonym-swapping (low-grade text spinning), which results in unnatural phrases like &#8220;thanks in your sweat.&#8221; (likely a bad transformation of &#8220;thanks for your hard work.&#8221;)</p>
<p>It’s likely a simple, rule-based bot, not a sophisticated AI.</p>
<p>It might be pulling phrases from old forums, blogs, or machine-translated text and remixing them.</p>
<p>The goal isn&#8217;t meaningful communication but to sound vaguely real enough to slip past spam filters.</p>
<p>Why Do They Do It?</p>
<p>Link Spam: The bot might later return and edit in a link (or try to post one originally).</p>
<p>SEO Manipulation: Even if there’s no immediate link, posting &#8220;engagement&#8221; can make a site look more active for search engine rankings.</p>
<p>Testing Filters: Some spambots probe for weak spam detection, seeing what gets through.</p>
<p>Pure Noise: Some attacks just flood sites with nonsense, sometimes as a form of denial-of-service (DoS) attack.</p>
<p>Final Thoughts</p>
<p>It’s not written by a human (at least, not intentionally). It’s not quite AI either, just low-grade automated nonsense meant to slip through filters. Tell your blogger friend to block or filter generic praise comments, as spambots often use those.</i></p>
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		By: steve walsh		</title>
		<link>https://thenewneo.com/2025/02/15/spambot-of-the-day-147/#comment-2788598</link>

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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Feb 2025 13:52:14 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Do you suppose the malapropisms are intentional? They are humorous.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Do you suppose the malapropisms are intentional? They are humorous.</p>
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		By: F		</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Feb 2025 12:18:03 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[That &quot;sharing in delicious&quot; has a nice taste to it.  Chocolate or English Toffee?]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>That &#8220;sharing in delicious&#8221; has a nice taste to it.  Chocolate or English Toffee?</p>
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		By: Philip Sells		</title>
		<link>https://thenewneo.com/2025/02/15/spambot-of-the-day-147/#comment-2788567</link>

		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Philip Sells]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Feb 2025 06:23:07 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Even Neo&#039;s very perspiration has the whiff of gratitude.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Even Neo&#8217;s very perspiration has the whiff of gratitude.</p>
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		By: OldTexan		</title>
		<link>https://thenewneo.com/2025/02/15/spambot-of-the-day-147/#comment-2788520</link>

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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Feb 2025 00:27:35 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[......  And naturally, thanks in your sweat! .......
And we are all wishing most all of you all a Happy Post Valentine&#039;s Day Sweaty Delightful Day, or something like that.  It could have been worse, the Spamer could have offered to lick you all, all over, or something like that which just ain&#039;t exactly right, don&#039;t ya know.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8230;&#8230;  And naturally, thanks in your sweat! &#8230;&#8230;.<br />
And we are all wishing most all of you all a Happy Post Valentine&#8217;s Day Sweaty Delightful Day, or something like that.  It could have been worse, the Spamer could have offered to lick you all, all over, or something like that which just ain&#8217;t exactly right, don&#8217;t ya know.</p>
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		By: AesopFan		</title>
		<link>https://thenewneo.com/2025/02/15/spambot-of-the-day-147/#comment-2788508</link>

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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Feb 2025 23:19:20 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I&#039;m getting rather fond of the Spambot family.
If you collected some of the better communications, you could write a book of modern poetry.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;m getting rather fond of the Spambot family.<br />
If you collected some of the better communications, you could write a book of modern poetry.</p>
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