The ChatGPT vs Bear Blog spam war

Ever since Bear Blog's infancy, spam has been an issue. Free services tend to attract those seeking to exploit them for backlinks and the alleged SEO benefits (although this is debatable given updates to the Google algorithm). I've previously discussed this in a post, detailing the manual review process which has been holding up well for the past 3 years. But alas, change is upon us. Spam used to be quite easy to spot: poorly worded, low-effort paragraphs sprinkled with backlinks to products or services.