I’ve definitely felt it in the past 5÷ years, even if it isn’t talked about much. I’ve been adding ‘reddit’ to my searches to avoid that endless sea of identically formatted articles that are clearly created by ai to maximize traffic, many science youtube videos are just obviously low-effort ai slop.
Outside of discussions about the Dead Internet Theory I don’t think I’ve ever heard anyone express this.
I’ve definitely felt it in the past 5÷ years, even if it isn’t talked about much. I’ve been adding ‘reddit’ to my searches to avoid that endless sea of identically formatted articles that are clearly created by ai to maximize traffic, many science youtube videos are just obviously low-effort ai slop.