commentary · [1 source] · 2026-05-22 23:43

AI-generated content floods internet, threatening human writing

By PulseAugur Editorial · Summary by gemini-2.5-flash-lite from 1 source

The internet is increasingly being flooded with machine-generated content, a phenomenon described as the "Great A.I.-Slop Flood." While pre-ChatGPT, over 98% of online English articles were human-written, by fall 2024, AI was producing about half, according to Graphite. This AI-generated content, including advertisements, social media posts, and customer service chats, is so pervasive that some experts, like literary critic Matthew Kirschenbaum, warn of a coming "textpocalypse" where human-written text becomes a rare artifact. AI

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IMPACT The proliferation of AI-generated content raises concerns about the devaluation of human writing and the potential for a 'textpocalypse'.

RANK_REASON The cluster discusses the increasing prevalence of AI-generated content online and its potential impact on human writing, drawing on expert opinions and statistics.

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"Machine-generated writing, though it doesn’t smell as sweet, has something of molasses’s smothering stickiness. One way to think about the internet is that it’

"Machine-generated writing, though it doesn’t smell as sweet, has something of molasses’s smothering stickiness. One way to think about the internet is that it’s an attempt to archive nearly everything ever written by anyone who ever lived. Recently, more and more new writing onl…

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"Machine-generated writing, though it doesn’t smell as sweet, has something of molasses’s smothering stickiness. One way to think about the internet is that it’

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