I am happy to announce a new spam detection module in Discourse AI
Over the past few months, we have sadly noticed that Akismet’s performance has been quite uneven.
AI-based spam detection allows you to better control how spam scanning works in your community.
We have seen very good results on a few forums now. Please share your experience here.
For those self-hosting or generally looking for a “free” way of using these tools, have a look at OpenRouter. There are quite a few free LLMs out there that can do a reasonable job scanning for spam.
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