Bots have taken over
I recently invited a job applicant to a first-round interview. Their CV looked promising and my AI slop detection didn’t go off. But then I got this reply:
This made me realize that the dead Internet arrived faster than expected. A few other purely qualitative examples confirmed the feeling.
HackerNews
HN now restricts ShowHN for new accounts after an influx of vibe-coded and low-quality ShowHN submissions.
Coincidentally as I’m writing this, HN also just updated their guidelines with the following rule:
Don’t post generated comments or AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans.
When I revisited an old Reddit post about a sideproject of mine, I found bots clearly astroturfing a SaaS product in the comments. These profiles hide their comments on their accounts, but it’s easy to find hundreds of similar comments.
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