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12k AI-generated blog posts added in a single commit
- ThrowawayR2 6mo agoIf the dead Internet theory wasn't true before, it sure will be soon.
- MattGaiser 6mo agoI would argue SEO should already be considered dead internet theory. Most of it is not intended to do anything but convince Google. A dentist buying freelance articles from a guy off Upwork is not intending to communicate anymore than this guy generating articles is.
- shevy-java 6mo agoSEO also showed that Google abuses its market position. One wonders why the USA promotes a de-facto monopoly here.
- pilsetnieks 6mo agoGreat 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
- nubg 6mo agoGreat imitation
- pilsetnieks 6mo agoThe dead internet theory terrifies me. I don't think we're at the point where it's mostly dead but we're already way past the point where any discussion worth anything can be had on the internet itself. The problem is not that everything could be AI slop but that anything could. It simply takes the wind out the sails and makes one question what's even the point if anything could just be written by a clanker. Anything you write could just be screaming out into the void, affecting no one, and just maybe adding to the training corpus for the next generation of clankers. Just writing this made me question "what's the point" several times. If you or anyone replies cogently, I still won't have any idea if it's a person or a Chinese room.
- shevy-java 6mo ago> The dead internet theory terrifies me. I don't think we're at the point where it's mostly dead Well - I would say the internet is not totally dead yet, but we approach the point of it being very useless now. I remember the 1990s era and early 2000s - it was almost innocent compared to the total slop era we have now. Young people today don't even know that Google Search was useful at one point in time. If you use Google Search now, you get so much irrelevant crap output that it is really useless now.
- thadt 6mo agoIronically, the reason I used Google the most then was because it indexed Usenet while so many other parts of the Internet offered by the other engines were "slop". My, how the turn tables.
- IsTom 6mo ago> to be have. Meatbag spotted, get 'im boys.
- agilob 6mo agoDead Internet is a product now, why aren't you monetizing it yet?
- shevy-java 6mo agoOnly if we allow it to happen. It is time for the Empire of common man and woman to strike back against AI slop and companies that promote it - such as microslop.
- senordevnyc 6mo agoCommon man and woman don’t care that much.
- post-it 6mo agoIt's kinda exciting. The social media status quo has its upsides but a lot of downsides. I'm hopeful that the change will be good. We'll have to figure out a way to authenticate the people we're talking to, which will encourage tighter-knit communities.
- dataviz1000 6mo agoThis will end with the only way to authenticate the people we're talking to is meeting them at the coffeeshop in the morning.
- Tepix 6mo agoDid you forget about Blade Runner?
- hackable_sand 6mo ago... Did you ...?
- post-it 6mo agoThat might be okay. We'd lose a lot, obviously, but if you could 100% trust that the person you met at a coffee shop is real, and you could 99% trust that the person they met the day before is real, and you could 98% trust the person that person met is real, you've got three degrees of Kevin Bacon.
- MattGaiser 6mo agoOne of the issues is that the purpose of business internet writing is not to be read, but to be ranked well.
- thm 6mo agoBy now, Google is smart enough to not even index this garbage.
- bakugo 6mo agoI think the bigger issue is that the percentage of internet writing that can be classified as "business writing" is growing significantly, now that the effort required to produce it is literally zero. Overall, it feels like no matter where you go on the internet, it's impossible to dodge content that exists primarily for the purpose of extracting money from the reader in some way. SEO spam blogs, AI startups shilling their latest product, AI generated stories posted to reddit that casually slip in a mention of how the supposed author has recently won money on a gambling website. It's all the same thing, really.
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- r_lee 6mo agoI've seen this blog slop on Google for the last month or so, no action taken whatsoever. it's mostly bullshit or regurgitated info from docs. like Google or their Search team really doesn't seem to care at all. all of a sudden a random blog website just happens to rank first page on every topic
- gibsonsmog 6mo agoLouis Rossman recently posted a video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=II2QF9JwtLc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=II2QF9JwtLc) where he had Gemini replace his 10+ year carefully curated content with AI slop and he instantly shot (back) up to the top of the rankings. They're very clearly favoring their own generated generic content rather than any sort of organic, well written or well informed entries. Shame.
- emsign 6mo agoThere's AI features and tips in Youtube's Creator Studio, they are encouraging creators to use AI tools. Makes sense that they also then reward videos that make use of it. That's how these platforms nudge people into products and behavior that they want to bring to market.
- tempest_ 6mo agoGoogle is not incentivized to show you good results. You don't pay them, advertisers do and that is who they are working for. Their job is provide you just enough "results" that you don't or cant go any where else. No more, no less.
- masfuerte 6mo agoGoogle used to prioritise search quality. About six years ago they decided to enshittify. Slop with more adverts is promoted over quality with fewer adverts. This isn't speculation. It came out in emails released as part of antitrust discovery. To reiterate: Google search is shit now because they want it to be.
- fg137 6mo agoSounds like a good argument for using Kagi.
- miyuru 6mo agoCommit maker is here and have only posts slop here as well. https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=ndhandala https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=ndhandala wonder when will he submit them here.
- progbits 6mo agoI think that account should be banned. Going further, the whole oneuptime.com domain should probably be blacklisted.
- fn-mote 6mo agoI 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.
- shevy-java 6mo agoI am kind of upset at github that we can not easily block AI content coming from their site.
- nickvec 6mo agoIt’s simply not possible to enforce at scale. How can you definitively say whether something is AI or not?
- cachius 6mo agoAt which URL(s) are the blog posts visible?
- diehunde 6mo agoI’m guessing https://oneuptime.com/blog https://oneuptime.com/blog
- djoldman 6mo ago"Showing 1 - 25 of 58891 posts" Seems to check out.
- progbits 6mo agoIt's actually hilariously bad. 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.
- amarant 6mo agoI like the topics! "Grpc-native microservices" is a wonderful piece of nonsense!
- maxbond 6mo agohttps://oneuptime.com/blog https://oneuptime.com/blog Scroll down a little and you'll see a huge block of posts dated March 31st
- wofo 6mo agoIt would be better not to post urls to the blog, to prevent it from getting links and get even higher in search results...
- gib444 6mo ago"Showing 1 - 25 of 45488 posts" I miss the days when we could assume that's just a pagination code bug
- vova_hn2 6mo agoIt's "Showing 1 - 25 of 58891 posts" now. HN tells me that your comment was posted 6 minutes ago, which gives us approximately 37.23 posts/second rate.
- cebert 6mo agoWhat is the point of this?
- wiether 6mo agoFeeding the beast
- nelsonfigueroa 6mo agoSEO purposes would be my guess
- StrLght 6mo agoI am so glad DuckDuckGo allows blocking specific sites from the search. Just did this for a domain linked in this repository.
- WJW 6mo agoGithub only reports 5012 changed files though.
- tadfisher 6mo ago> Showing 1-25 of 58891 posts I have to imagine that one quality post worth reading would be linked in multiple places, thus would beat tens of thousands of slop articles for SEO purposes?
- sgbeal 6mo ago> I have to imagine that one quality post worth reading ... As the Berliners say: "Die Hoffnung stirbt zuletzt" or: "Hope is the last thing to die" (or "hope dies last" if one prefers a literal translation)
- Retr0id 6mo agoYou'd think, but very low quality AI-generated content regularly makes it to the HN front page, so it's just a numbers game.
- sigmonsays 6mo agowhen AI starts training itself accidentally on AI generated content, we all lose...
- sesm 6mo agoDon't we already have "RLHF on synthetic data"?
- whycombinetor 6mo agoMeanwhile on the HN main page right now: "Embarrassingly Simple Self-Distillation Improves Code Generation" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47637757 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47637757
- wartywhoa23 6mo agoAI is the stellar moment for all mediocrity and conmen.
- ConceitedCode 6mo agoI 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.
- iuvcaw 6mo agoIronically this post is doing wonders for its page rank, as people are linking to it in the comments
- Retr0id 6mo agoNow that we have better ML, maybe we could take "link sentiment" into account too.
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- cyanydeez 6mo agoCrawlers would need to use backlinks but also rank vector similarity to ensure the linked content matches the linked intent. Some kind of rainbow shades of how relevent the link is to the linkee and reverse.
- zahlman 6mo agoI don't know how good it was, but sentiment analysis was definitely a thing pre-ChatGPT.
- Retr0id 6mo agoIt was pretty basic though, and even a frontier LLM might struggle to infer that OP is a negative-sentiment link, without sufficient context.
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- ieie3366 6mo agoIronically due to slop I feel like we are regressing as a civilization 2020, want to know how to use Redix for Redis connections in Elixir? Google it and the results were most likely high quality, written by senior engineers who knew what they were doing Today google that, and it will be endless amounts of slop
- johnbarron 6mo ago>> Ironically due to slop I feel like we are regressing as a civilization Well after 50 years we cant reproduce what Apollo did, and I would doubt current students of the same age would handle a 1912 Eight Grade Examination: https://www.bullittcountyhistory.com/bchistory/schoolexam1912.html https://www.bullittcountyhistory.com/bchistory/schoolexam191...
- post-it 6mo agoSurvivor bias. - Apollo had a significantly higher accepted risk. Apollo 1 or 13 would be untenable today. - The percent of 13-year olds that made it into and through eight grade was significantly smaller in 1912. Your average poor farming kid did not go to eighth grade.
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- johnbarron 6mo ago>> Apollo had a significantly higher accepted risk. Apollo would never risk the astronauts lives like NASA is doing: "Artemis II is not safe to fly" - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47582043 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47582043 Apollo 2 to 6 were Uncrewed Tests Apollo 10 was a dress rehearsal for the Moon landing, with the Lunar Module flying to within 9 miles of the lunar surface. including having the lunar module descent to within 15 kilometers of the lunar surface but the crew did not attempt a landing. Artemis is testing a new heat shield for the first time, with humans on board, that has only been validated by computer models, and almost failed catastrophically in Artemis I. The difference between then and now, is that now you have a commission of public servants and then you had Harvey Allen and Wernher von Braun.
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- antiloper 6mo ago"Nawaz Dhandala"
- self_awareness 6mo agoI nominate Nawaz Dhandala as "the king of AI slop"
- sph 6mo agoHe's just an idiot doing it in public, because there are people generating hundreds of posts a day for years now without committing it on github under their real name.
- arcza 6mo agoSo whatever OneUptime is, I now know it has zero integrity and is something I should avoid.
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- hirako2000 6mo ago> All content must be original and not published anywhere else. Do what I say, not what I do.
- ugiox 6mo agoNow we know why GitHub has a hard time with stability and reliability. Because of this AI slop BS inflicted on us by the Silicon Valley tech bros and all their followers.
- username223 6mo ago[GitHub] platform activity is surging. — https://twitter.com/kdaigle/status/2040164759836778878 https://twitter.com/kdaigle/status/2040164759836778878
- raincole 6mo agoSerious question: What is this post about and why should we care? It's a repo with 35 stars. Is adding 12,000 posts in a single commit somehow technically difficult or significant?
- self_awareness 6mo agoThis post is added because it's so easy and to show that it's being done in real life. That we can't have nice things, because of mindless people like Nawaz Dhandala.
- raincole 6mo agoI'm quite sure in every passing second people are pumping more AI slop to the internet. I just don't see why this is something special (unless it's a well-known project among HN users that I'm not aware of.)
- self_awareness 6mo agoI'm also quite sure, but this is the proof, not hypothesis -- with git commits and all.
- bakugo 6mo agoYou should care because this website has a high ranking on Google and these 12000 posts will show up every time you search something programming related.
- conception 6mo agoStop using Google. Kagi lets you block and prioritize sites.
- bakugo 6mo agoI have used Kagi, it's not a suitable replacement. It still struggles with relevance even compared to the garbage that is current-day Google, and is particularly bad at finding recent (less than a month or two old) information.
- schmookeeg 6mo agoWe are all quickly becoming allergic to AI writing. To fool us into thinking writing is not AI generated, we will create "human-ifying" filters to the LLM. This will introduce common keystroke, grammar, and spelling issues that surely no automation would ever create on its own. Soon the writing most vaunted and trusted will be the writing that appears written by a 4 year old with a crayon. Sigh.
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- Topfi 6mo agoI know there is a lot of valid criticism of GitHubs poor performance when scrolling, but in this case I think we can let them off the hook. I'll just leave this here: https://developers.google.com/search/help/report-quality-issues https://developers.google.com/search/help/report-quality-iss...
- avian 6mo agoJust 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 there were not links. All posts came from a RSS feed of an apparently abandoned tech blog I was following that had the last legit post in 2020. My guess is the domain expired, a squatter bought it, saw a bunch of requests for the RSS feed and grabbed the opportunity. Although to what end I'm not sure.
- camdenreslink 6mo agoFor every sign up to that gambling site from their affiliate link they make a few bucks (sometimes many few bucks).
- fragmede 6mo ago> not clear which since there were not links. How does that work tho?
- camdenreslink 6mo agoOh interesting, then it was likely the owner of the gambling site itself doing this shady stuff.
- Steppphennn 6mo agoI don’t see how the author isn’t embarrassed. Maybe it’s just me having imposter syndrome or maybe I can self reflect, maybe. If he used AI to slop all those articles up doesn’t he know any developer can use AI to get that content through the IDE? He’s trying to game something with a tool that effectively killed off that game in the first place.
- moomoo11 6mo agoI’m a south asian guy so I’ll just say it. I’m not surprised anymore when a lot of scammy/scummy behavior turns out to be done by a south asian. In sf too most of the scammers and scummy founders are south asian. It’s gross and honestly as a south asian doing something legit it sucks to see them just fulfilling a stereotype. These assholes are the same types responsible for why those societies are fucked up, being in SF most south asians I’ve met are from super wealthy families there that exploit people. Not surprising their new generation is exploiting too. Downvote me if that upsets you but someone’s gotta call it out.
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- wormpilled 6mo agoI appreciate you for saying that. It's something we're going to have to deal with, high trust societies institutions getting eroded by these types of people only interested in getting theirs. What particularly bugs me about this, is the made up white man to paint as the slop author. https://github.com/mallersjamie https://github.com/mallersjamie
- moomoo11 6mo agoThey’re just evil people. Now their children have access and the nepo-evil shit spreads. Sorry but I’m a first hand victim of these people so screw them fk off!!
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- setnone 6mo agoi guess 11K won't do it and 13K is just way too much
- whycombinetor 6mo agoIf it's between a human or an AI copywriting SEO slop, I'm happy to see an AI take that job. SEO content marketing is so painful to read once you realize you're reading it, and I have to imagine it's as painful to write if you're a technically talented writer.
- swores 6mo agoI agree with you about the majority of "SEO content marketing", but a small minority of it is done by companies who genuinely care about doing good content, that doesn't only act as lazy SEO benefit but also as good marketing for people who read it. It's a lot harder / more expensive to produce, as it needs (at least before AI, and I guess still to some extent even using AI for now) to be written by someone on the team who genuinely understands the company's technology/product/whatever well enough to educate other people about it in an interesting way, rather than it being written by low wage SEO writers who just need a list of keywords to include in the drivel that is the sort of content you're talking about. So it makes sense that most companies go with the cheap option, but it's always nice to come across ones who produce actual interesting articles. (It's what I've always opted for when I've overseen marketing budgets, and I think the ROI is usually worth it since balancing the extra cost is the fact that the benefits go from just SEO, to SEO + word of mouth of people sharing the interesting article they read, and the awareness of the brand that comes with it. So I recommend anyone who normally chooses lazy, low quality content for SEO to consider the upgrade!)
- jpdb 6mo agoI've been seeing this company in ~all of my searches across various tech topics. They're absolutely dominating search results. The quality isn't terrible, but there's so much content that I can't trust them to be accurate.
- TrackerFF 6mo agoI've seen an increase in this "firehose" tactic among the passive-income folks, where the idea is to just saturate certain niches with AI-generated content, and collect some cents here and some cents there - in the hopes it will generate as much money as maintaining a single high-quality content channel. Don't know if they actually make any money doing it like that. A couple of weeks ago I stumbled across some content-creator that said he had hundreds of faceless YouTube channels, which was made possible due to AI tools.
- iLoveOncall 6mo agoMy son and his friend made a YouTube channel that's just brainrot memes that, while they do it manually, could easily be fully automated by AI (or even without AI). They have 17 million views in 2 months. The strategy of spamming trash no-effort content definitely pays.
- swores 6mo agoFor just $199, I'll sell you my PDF explaining exactly how to do this well enough to make WAY more than only "some cents here and some cents there". Special limited time offer for HN readers, reduced from my normal price of $1,489! P.S. Or get it free when buying my $499 "how to make money selling people how to make money guides" guide! (/s. I generally think HN comments should avoid jokes unless they're genuinely really cleverly funny, which this comment isn't - I only justified it to myself by the fact that the sort of people selling these trashy guides are the same people doing what you're talking about, and I feel they deserve mockery and shaming.)
- hoppp 6mo agoWhat is this monstrosity, cmon. Why would anyone read AI generated blog posts when I can just ask AI for what I need already For gaming SEO this is still bad, no backlinks.
- srhyne 6mo agoI’ve naturally landed a handful of their posts recently through search. I was impressed with the quality. Interesting to see this after the fact.
- chloeburbank 6mo agoI have visited a blog on this site while searching for something. Suffice to say it was a very shoddy attempt at a blog and at this point I should just network block this site entirely
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- eh_why_not 6mo agoIt's becoming much harder to determine on a daily basis what content is original, thought-out by a person, and trustworthy. Ironically, verifiably-old content is easier to trust now. Examples from recent personal experience: 1) Some time ago I was searching for growing information about a specific and uncommonly-grown plant, and was led to a top-ranked website with long pages containing everything about it, including other plants. Surprised at how prolific the writing was, I spent more than an hour on the website, taking notes, etc. Every few paragraphs it would include an amazon affiliate link to something topical, which I thought was fair. Until I realized that the links near the bottom of the page were looking more random. Then it hit me, the website is all AI-generated, and the affiliate links themselves are also AI-chosen. And everything new I "learned" from that site was now useless because I had no way to know what was grounded in actual agricultural experience and what was hallucinated. 2) Recently I did a youtube search for a book I had just finished reading, looking for some reviews. Came across a channel that was reading the book as new audio (i.e. not the original published audiobook). I thought it was a fan making it. The voice was beautiful, soothing, and natural with all kinds of relevant emotions correctly included. I started listening to the book again, until I noticed a consistent error in word ordering being made every few lines. Then it hit me! The channel even included one upload with a video recording of a seemingly-real person reading with that voice. Both the audio and video are AI-generated, but very hard to tell. 3) Next to those videos, YT recommended many strange/new channels. One had the photo and the exact voice of a famous (and now very old) physicist, with tens of clickbaity titles about controversial topics in the domain. The only tell was that the voice was too vigorous and consistently energetic, while if you've listened to that physicist before, you know his cadence is slower. At first I thought maybe the channel is reading one of his books; no, the content itself was AI-generated, maybe based on his books. There was a lot of engagement, with many comments like "mind blown" and "learned so much today". Both #1 and #3 are harmful, because you think you're learning from a reliable source but you end up learning hallucinated nothings. #2 I didn't mind much, still enjoyed the new voice, and even preferred it over my original audible version.
- lconnell962 6mo agoSomething I've recently started seeing, maybe even an emerging #4 is AI generated translations. You could have someone very intelligent, making well written subject matter expertise. Or just someone who has valid thoughts they wish to express to the world in a language more of a common tongue than their own. Or on the other end you could have someone who wrote a sentance or two in their language and had some combination of AI generation and translation algorithm bloat it out. In both cases you will get something that can look right and well thought out or explained, but probably will have at least some of the AI slop signs present. I don't know what the solution is for this type given claims Google Translate has started to do this kind of translation for people. An AI translation is probably just as prone to hallucinations as any other AI, but it probably will look more natural to readers than a direct translation.
- petterroea 6mo agoThis is why i never trust blog posts any more. If a company logo is attached its just SEO garbage
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- troupo 6mo agoIronic, considering the README: --- start quote --- These blog posts are written by the OneUptime team and open source contributors. We write about our experiences, our learnings, and our thoughts on the world of software development, Kubernetes, Ceph, SRE, DevOps, Cloud and more. We hope you find our posts helpful and insightful. --- end quote ---
- CrzyLngPwd 6mo agoThere doesn't seem to be a workable plan for how to cope with the onslaught of AI output, and it's going to get much worse. The sentinel servers, meta/google/ms/etc. just seem to be largely ignoring it, or even supporting it. It's already nauseatingly common on all major platforms.
- nelsonfigueroa 6mo agoWell, at least they're not exactly hiding it.
- nunez 6mo agoWelcome to the slop age!
- nicbvs 6mo agoTrying to hide all their CVE behind AI slop
- alin23 6mo agoThey even have a scrolling 5-star reviews section, clearly generated: https://oneuptime.com/#reviews-title https://oneuptime.com/#reviews-title https://github.com/OneUptime/oneuptime/commit/538e40c4ae724e8e83c01a81b8e2c0610e8b992b https://github.com/OneUptime/oneuptime/commit/538e40c4ae724e... https://github.com/OneUptime/oneuptime/commit/2bc585df20e6bbdaf85f5fd8182cff939381e9e6 https://github.com/OneUptime/oneuptime/commit/2bc585df20e6bb... You can fabricate a professional business image in a few days with AI now. It's going to be hard to build an honest brand when everyone is going to point and say "vibe coded slop" because of examples like this website. I'm already seeing such comments whenever someone posts an app on /r/macapps and it's really discouraging for beginners. If I would have met that resistance and amount of mean comments when I launched Lunar, I would have probably never put in that amount of effort.
- noslop 6mo ago"This enhancement improves the user experience by showcasing positive feedback from customers" you can't make this up
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- mzajc 6mo agouBlacklist is a great extension to avoid slopfarms like this: https://ublacklist.github.io/docs https://ublacklist.github.io/docs
- whattheheckheck 6mo agoIf this shit can come from the llms why are we redragging it out of them? To reverify correctness?
- Manchitsanan 6mo ago[dead]