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Commit maker is here and have only posts slop here as well. https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=ndhandala wonder when will he submit them here.
If the dead Internet theory wasn't true before, it sure will be soon.
Great point! At this point the Dead Internet Theory isn't a conspiracy – it's a roadmap. It's worth noting he distinction between "authentic" and "synthetic" online spaces is eroding faster than most people realize – that's a genuinely important conversation to be have. /s
Meatbag spotted, get 'im boys.
I thought somebody counted them… incredibly, the log message admits to committing 12,000 articles. I guess that means the log message was authored by AI as well. Figures.
I am kind of upset at github that we can not easily block AI content coming from their site.
Just this morning I opened up my RSS reader and found that it was flooded by weird, twisty prose exalting the virtues of online gambling. Since I follow a few blogs that post long form content I first thought this was satire or something, but after reading for a bit and seeing that the posts just never end my best guess was it's just AI slop indented to drive traffic to some gambling site - not clear which since ther…
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I’m guessing https://oneuptime.com/blog
"Showing 1 - 25 of 58891 posts" Seems to check out.
If you go to the last (2356th!) page, you will see eight posts from 2023 and 2024, mostly few months apart. (But even none of those are good)
Then in 2025 @nawazdhandala starts going wild with 22 articles on January 6th. And from that point on it's basically just all him and it keeps accelerating.
I suspect we'll address this by just going back to older ranking algorithms for search. We'll go back to the primary signal of good content being links from trusted sources. People gaming the content based algorithms will eventually cause their own downfall.
Ironically this post is doing wonders for its page rank, as people are linking to it in the comments
You basically have to use nofollow for comments otherwise your site becomes a big target for SEO link spam.
I suspect we'll address this by just going back to older ranking algorithms for search. We'll go back to the primary signal of good content being links from trusted sources. People gaming the content based algorithms will eventually cause their own downfall.
> I suspect we'll address this Who is "we"? Definitely not Google or any other major tech company, they're all actively encouraging this. > trusted sources. What trusted sources are there that haven't yet been taken over by AI?
Google has been fighting aggressively to replace its search results with snippets, now generated by LLMs, to avoid sending traffic to other websites. If they continue, they will basically lead Google Search to a tipping point where a good competitor can take this market by storm. Microsoft also believed Windows is indestructible and now they have a rude awakening.
What is the point of this?