Oh no, says Sam, the eminently predictable consequences of my own actions have come to pass through no fault of my own.
And he’s not wrong. If I search for any topic on Google without narrowing my search very carefully, the first page will consist of one AI generated autoresponse and ten AI generated articles from SEO-exploiting link farms.
If I search for advice on Reddit I have to narrow it down to posts from before 2022 or comments will be full of users who see a question and think “it is both useful and appropriate for me to plug this question into ChatGPT and post its answer.”
(Edit: oh, shit, I forgot, Reddit also inserts links to AI-generated answers in old comments. So I’m reading an old comment and think the author linked to something relevant but the link actually triggers Reddit Answers to supply AI garbage. Ugh.)
Product reviews have been 95% spam and ad copy for decades.
I read fucking fanfiction and half the stories that started in 2025 show signs of being at least edited by LLMs.
If that’s not the shambling zombie corpse of the Internet pretending to be human I don’t know what it is.
Oh no, says Sam, the eminently predictable consequences of my own actions have come to pass through no fault of my own.
And he’s not wrong. If I search for any topic on Google without narrowing my search very carefully, the first page will consist of one AI generated autoresponse and ten AI generated articles from SEO-exploiting link farms.
If I search for advice on Reddit I have to narrow it down to posts from before 2022 or comments will be full of users who see a question and think “it is both useful and appropriate for me to plug this question into ChatGPT and post its answer.”
(Edit: oh, shit, I forgot, Reddit also inserts links to AI-generated answers in old comments. So I’m reading an old comment and think the author linked to something relevant but the link actually triggers Reddit Answers to supply AI garbage. Ugh.)
Product reviews have been 95% spam and ad copy for decades.
I read fucking fanfiction and half the stories that started in 2025 show signs of being at least edited by LLMs.
If that’s not the shambling zombie corpse of the Internet pretending to be human I don’t know what it is.