Shaming AI Comments

I've got a post which, for some reason, is loved by AI crapbots. I've gotten multiple comments that were clearly created by not a human in an effort to...something? I'm not sure. They've been sitting in my moderation queue for some time just because I wanted to do something to shame the submitters even though I know they're not looking. Anyways, all comments go into a Pending queue on my admin page so I can manually mark them as approved or not. I added a spam toggle on the dashboard that marks the comment as spam in the database. My original idea was to totally replace the text of the comment in the database as well, but then I thought of a better idea. First, if a comment is marked as spam, the text is replaced at the templating step to: "An AI attempted to leave a comment here. I have saved you the trouble of reading it. No human put any thought into it, and no person was saying anything. Instead someone wanted to appear intelligent for a crowd without expending any attention or…

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