{"id":7330,"date":"2026-10-02T12:39:55","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T10:39:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ekiwi.de\/index.php\/7330\/ai-spam-in-wordpress-comments\/"},"modified":"2026-10-02T12:59:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T10:59:08","slug":"ai-spam-in-wordpress-comments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ekiwi.de\/en\/index.php\/7330\/ai-spam-in-wordpress-comments\/","title":{"rendered":"AI spam in WordPress comments"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_89 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-grey ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of content<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"ez-toc-pull-right ez-toc-btn ez-toc-btn-xs ez-toc-btn-default ez-toc-toggle\" aria-label=\"Toggle Table of Content\"><span class=\"ez-toc-js-icon-con\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/ekiwi.de\/en\/index.php\/7330\/ai-spam-in-wordpress-comments\/#Hotel_Lobby_AI_Video_Generator\" >Hotel Lobby AI Video Generator<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/ekiwi.de\/en\/index.php\/7330\/ai-spam-in-wordpress-comments\/#Conclusion\" >Conclusion<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<p>Increased AI spam in WordPress comments.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Our websites have recently been experiencing a recurring problem with spam that is clearly generated by AI. This is a nuisance, as spam filters are largely ineffective against it. The spam sometimes relates, to a greater or lesser extent, to the content of the article and therefore appears to be a legitimate comment.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/ai-001.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"964\" height=\"331\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7326\" srcset=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/ai-001.webp 964w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/ai-001-300x103.webp 300w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/ai-001-768x264.webp 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 964px) 100vw, 964px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>They\u2019re promoting all sorts of online services and websites, most of which are also AI-related.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Hotel_Lobby_AI_Video_Generator\"><\/span>Hotel Lobby AI Video Generator<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>If you take a look at the websites, well\u2026 Apparently, the AI boom is producing some very strange results. This is just one example: an AI where you upload two photos and then the two of them start singing.<\/p>\n<p>Why does this require a separate website and service, rather than just going straight to ChatGPT and the like? I\u2019ve no idea.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/ai-002.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"811\" height=\"387\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7328\" srcset=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/ai-002.webp 811w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/ai-002-300x143.webp 300w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/ai-002-768x366.webp 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 811px) 100vw, 811px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Conclusion\"><\/span>Conclusion<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Unfortunately, I haven\u2019t found a solution to this yet, apart from deleting the comments as quickly as possible.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Increased AI spam in WordPress comments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1391,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[885],"tags":[1625,1087],"class_list":["post-7330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wordpress-en","tag-ai-en","tag-spam-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7330?lang=en"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?lang=en"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post?lang=en"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1?lang=en"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?lang=en&post=7330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7330\/revisions?lang=en"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1391?lang=en"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?lang=en&parent=7330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?lang=en&post=7330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?lang=en&post=7330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}