[littlestymaar]

I've seen AI written blog posts before, but this is one step above: the entire blog (~90 articles) have been AI generated over the past three months.

I already find it very frustrating that most open source projects spawning on HN's front page are resume-boosting AI slop but if blogs start being the same the internet is definitely dead.

Edit: it doesn't even looks like it's resume-boosting in this case, the “person” behind it doesn't even appear to exist. We can only speculate about the intent behind this.

[smartbit]

The person https://www.linkedin.com/in/vvoss/ seems to exist, I even have a mutual linkedin connection. What makes you think the “person” behind it doesn't even appear to exist?

[littlestymaar]

I can't log-in to linkedin right now, but here's a few things:

- the profile picture is almost certainly (like 99%, certainty) AI-generated (I can even tell you it's ChatGPT-generated, the style is way too characteristic to miss).

- the LinkedIn profile shows prolific activity for the past few days, but almost nothing before that, I'm not sure the profile existed before.

- the github account is just 2 weeks old.

Having a mutual connection doesn't mean much, the interesting question would be who's the mutual and for how long has he be a connection. It's not hard to get to 500 LinkedIn connections on LinkedIn in a few days, you just need to add headhunters and other hiring specialists, they'll never refuse an invitation from a profile that look interesting. They could also have added someone who interacted with their LinkedIn slop submission, making the person more likely to accept the invitation.

[renox]

And the Chrome capsicum hallucination got me..

[shirro]

It is getting more difficult to research now. Increasingly I just grab the source code locally and don't bother with the browser. Every search returns pages of wordy AI generated docs. At best they restate the code. At worse they read like badly written brochures. I am avoiding any project that doesn't have a long history. Large, feature packed projects that appeared out of nowhere on github with a single commit with no history or users are essentially stolen code that has been machine translated to obscure the original authors works.

I hate becoming the old person shaking their fist at the sky but the AI bros have just gone too far. I don't know why there isn't a bigger political and social movement against them. I would sign up in an instant to see their companies and practices regulated out of existence.