AI Slop Is Destroying The Internet

Why HN readers recommended it

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

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell

Topic

ai slop

Format

explainer

Level

general

HN recommenders in dataset

3

HN mentions in dataset

11

Recommendation years in dataset

2025–2026

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From the original HN conversations

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• 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. [VIDEO] …

• 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: [VIDEO]

• 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. [VIDEO]