In the early days here, before AI, I remember certain bot accounts would fish for upvotes with short, meaningless comments across hundreds of posts. Now I see these efforts have become more sophisticated. I have accounts that regularly comment on my posts who I suspect are using AI. They're always dripping with flattery "This really touched me" and basically just parrot back a short summary of the blog post but it's all very generic and almost clinical. If I'm fairly sure it's AI I try to just not reward these in the hopes they'll stop and move on. Genuine comments from people who've actually read my posts are sometimes the highlight of my day and I think we should do everything we can to preserve this.