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AI Slop Is Destroying The Internet

Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell · 11.4M views · 2025-10-07 · 9:52

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Overview

Kurzgesagt examines how AI-generated content is flooding the internet, from video and music to news and books. It looks at how this makes verifying what is real harder.

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HN uses it as a reference for AI slop, LLMs citing LLM output, and the growing difficulty of fact checking.

Recommended by 3 HN people across 2 months · HN mentions 2025–2026

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LLMs & generative AIMedia, journalism & propagandaFuturism & technology and society
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ColdStream · 2026-07 · Strong recommendation

I'm glad they go in deep on the data feed back on this. Kurzgesagt made a great video on how this stuff gets generated, an article uses this, data sets get trained on this, and then future outputs will use the article as citation. [VIDEO] This is the paradox to be addressed. In trying to make LLM's more accurate, we try to pin it to citations, but then that means having to trust that the citations are accurate. But having the citations generated by an LLM means it basically becomes impossible to confirm the accuracy. As it has been said anything after 2022 cannot be reliably trusted. You can do you due diligence but that is a lot of work if you can do it. Really highlights the idea that a lie will travel around the world before the truth puts its shoes on.

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zwnow · 2025-10 · Recommendation

Absolutely. If the knowledge is verifiable. Kurzgesagt recently uploaded a video about this, its a lot harder to verify statements due to AI. Not easier. Here is the video in case you are interested: [VIDEO]

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ikiris · 2025-10 · Recommendation

If you think this is trivial, I suggest watching the video kurzgesagt just did on the topic. It’s much harder than you appreciate and getting massively worse as the days go by due to ai garbage. [VIDEO]

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