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AI Slop Is Destroying The Internet

Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell3 HN recommenders · recommended in 2 months, 2025–2026
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Kurzgesagt examines how AI-generated content is flooding the internet, from video and music to news and books. It looks at how this makes verifying what is real harder.

HN uses it as a reference for AI slop, LLMs citing LLM output, and the growing difficulty of fact checking.

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@ColdStream2026-07 · in “How AI Slop Is Killing World War II History (YouTube Video)”

I'm glad they go in deep on the data feed back on this. Kurzgesagt made a great video on how this stuff gets generated, an article uses this, data sets get trained on this, and then future outputs will use the article as citation. ▶ this video This is the paradox to be addressed. In trying to make LLM's more accurate, we try to pin it to citations, but then that means having to trust that the citations are accurate. But having the citations generated by an LLM means it basically becomes impossible to confirm the accuracy. As it has been said anything after 2022 cannot be reliably trusted. You can do you due diligence but that is a lot of work if you can do it. Really highlights the idea that a lie will travel around the world before the truth puts its shoes on.

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@zwnow2025-10 · in “Vibe engineering”

Absolutely. If the knowledge is verifiable. Kurzgesagt recently uploaded a video about this, its a lot harder to verify statements due to AI. Not easier. Here is the video in case you are interested: ▶ this video

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@ikiris2025-10 · in “You did no fact checking, and I must scream”

If you think this is trivial, I suggest watching the video kurzgesagt just did on the topic. It’s much harder than you appreciate and getting massively worse as the days go by due to ai garbage. ▶ this video

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@Joel_Mckay2026-02 · in “I started programming when I was 7. I'm 50 now and the thing I loved has changed”

You seem very passionate about your opinions, but are you happy? The fact remains LLM can't reach comparable human error rates without consuming 75% of the energy output of our entire local galaxy. While I find true Neuromorphic computing topics more interesting, the emergence of the LLM "AI" true believer is deeply concerning to those that understand how they are actually built. =3 link ▶ this video link

@Joel_Mckay2025-12 · in “Is it a bubble?”

LLM slop doesn't have aspirations at all, its just click bait nonsense. ▶ this video Drives people insane: link And LLM are economically and technologically unsustainable: link These have already proven it will be unconstrained if AGI ever emerges. link The LLM bubble will pass, as it is already losing money with every new user. =3