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All Interconnects comments will be paywalled because opening comments on popular posts floods them with low-quality, often AI-generated content that damages the blog's highly selective audience.

Lambert announces that all Interconnects comments will now be paywalled, citing floods of low-quality, often AI-generated replies whenever a popular post has open comments. ✦ AI generated

Nathan Lambert · Interconnects · 2026-06-17 · original ↗

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All comments will be paywalled. Whenever I have a popular post without paywalled comments I get a flood of low-quality posts — many of which are obviously AI generated. This is a detriment of the highly selective audience we’ve built.

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