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So it has been only a couple months and AI spam is causing problems for submissions in communities from StackOverflow to Sci-Fi publishing to photo contests. The AIs can overrun all the CAPTCHAs too.

So, this is just the beginning. What will happen next year on HN? Anyone can deploy a swarm of bots

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With generative AI (text, images, videos), I'm of the opinion that very soon -- if not now -- every"one" on the internet should be assumed a bot until proven otherwise.

In other words, it's now trivial to fake a digital persona, including "selfies", "personalities", and more.

How do you know I'm not an LLM?

dead internet will become real

It was a misnomer calling it 'dead internet theory', Thoughty2 correctly renames it 'dead internet prophecy'.

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