{"id":6248,"date":"2024-03-19T17:05:39","date_gmt":"2024-03-19T22:05:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/?p=6248"},"modified":"2024-03-19T17:05:39","modified_gmt":"2024-03-19T22:05:39","slug":"gravediggercomic-website-taken-over-by-ai-generated-link-farm-spammer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/19\/gravediggercomic-website-taken-over-by-ai-generated-link-farm-spammer\/","title":{"rendered":"Gravediggercomic website taken over by AI generated link farm spammer"},"content":{"rendered":"

Recently, a (wordpress) website I had subscribed to via RSS feed (gravediggercomc dot com) changed it’s title (“An Amazing Website”) and started to post new content again.\u00a0 The content is clearly AI generated link farming.\u00a0 I suspect that the original website owner decided to not re-register the domain name, and a spammer purchased it after it expired.<\/p>\n

June 22nd 2022<\/a> was the last time the website displayed the “proper” content for a gravedigger comic website, and probably the last time it was controlled by the original authors:
\nCHRISTOPHER MILLS \u2013 Writer\/Letterer
\n<\/em><\/strong>RICK BURCHETT \u2013 Artist<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

[Although the copyright notice at the bottom was from 2013-2016….]<\/p>\n

[on Oct 7th 2022 it had a “renew now”<\/a> webpage displayed…]<\/p>\n

So, I guess my suggestion is to delete any links you might have to this old\/expired domain and ignore it in the future.\u00a0 And if you own a website, think about keeping it around as long as possible so prevent spammers from taking it over.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Recently, a (wordpress) website I had subscribed to via RSS feed (gravediggercomc dot com) changed it’s title (“An Amazing Website”) and started to post new content again.\u00a0 The content is clearly AI generated link farming.\u00a0 I suspect that the original … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6248"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6249,"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6248\/revisions\/6249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}