At the time I read Elizabeth Lopatto’s Summer of spam piece on The Verge, there were 37 comments. After a bunch of people commiserating with their tales of spam, or offering suggestions on how to fight it, I came to what was then the last comment:
Yes, spam. I’m curious what the spammer had to edit. Maybe they got the link (which I have redacted) wrong? It’s also cute that they have deliberately altered “job” in the hope of bypassing automatic spam filtering. (I am the one who reported the message as part of my internet civic duty.)
As for the article, go read it and likewise commiserate. I’ve noticed an uptick this week in both spam phone calls and spam in my Outlook account (which still gets mercifully little junk). Fighting spam is not an easy j0b!
Related: Alex Leonard has an article on LLMs and how they are generating spam, using vast amounts of energy and generally making the web a terrible place. Worth reading: On the weird plague of LLM (aka AI)