互联网的末日：我们还能回到那个时代吗
The dead Internet is not a theory anymore
我最近邀请了一位求职者参加第一轮面试，却发现他们的简历中充满了AI生成的废话。这让我意识到互联网的末日比我们想象的来得更快。从HackerNews到Reddit，再到LinkedIn和GitHub，AI垃圾内容无处不在。这些平台上的真实交流正被越来越多的AI生成内容所取代，我们还能回到那个充满真实交流的互联网时代吗？
The dead Internet is not a theory anymore.
I recently invited a job applicant to a first-round interview. Their CV looked promising and my AI slop detection didn’t go off. But then I got this reply:
This made me realize that the dead Internet arrived faster than expected. A few other purely qualitative examples confirmed the feeling.
HN now restricts ShowHN for new accounts after an influx of vibe-coded and low-quality ShowHN submissions.
Coincidentally as I’m writing this, HN also just updated their guidelines with the following rule:
Don’t post generated comments or AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans.
When I revisited an old Reddit post about a sideproject of mine, I found bots clearly astroturfing a SaaS product in the comments. These profiles hide their comments on their accounts, but it’s easy to find hundreds of similar comments.
On the rare occasion I open LinkedIn, my timeline is mostly AI-generated slop among very few actually interesting professional updates.
And of course let’s not forget AI spamming OSS repos with nonsensical PRs. What’s even funnier is when the reviewer turns out to be AI too.
Can we go back to an internet like this? I guess we can’t.