No AI comments. None. No exceptions.

Yesterday, an AI posted a comment on this blog — or tried to. It was superficially helpful, relevant to the top of the post it was on, and turned out to contain that characteristic blend of things we already knew and things that are (subtly or blatantly) wrong. Needless to say, we shoved it in the spam folder. This is a good moment to remind everyone of our AI policy: SV-POW! is an AI-free zone. (Follow the link for the detail.) That applies to comments as well as to our own posts. Do not post AI-generated content as a comment(*). If you do, we may warn you once, or we may just block you. As Matt put it in an email: Make it clear that this is absolutely zero-tolerance. A single instance of posting AI slop can get you perma-banned. People can go publicly crap their pants on the rest of the internet. We’re interested in what our readers have to say, and in engaging with humans. Slop is not welcome here. (*) The sole possible exception, and be very careful about this, is posting clearly…