AI slop pushes dead internet mainstream

This lands because it treats AI pollution as an operational problem, not just a culture-war complaint: once spam gets cheap enough, every open platform starts paying the moderation bill.

• –Hacker News explicitly banning generated or AI-edited comments is a strong signal that human-only conversation is now something communities must defend
• –GitHub spam matters most to developers because bogus PRs and bot reviews turn open-source maintenance into adversarial filtering work
• –The recruiting example shows the same dynamic hitting hiring and outbound communication, where synthetic enthusiasm is becoming indistinguishable from real interest
• –The bigger takeaway is that AI distribution is outpacing identity and trust systems, so the next wave of products will be about verification, provenance, and smaller gated communities