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by TimByte 4 hours ago
The funniest part is that the article about AI slime polluting the internet was itself generated from start to finish by a neural net to promote some startup.

But the problem they're so clumsily trying to monetize is absolutely real. GitHub is rapidly turning from a place with battle-tested solutions into a dumpster fire of hallucinations. And no crutches like MAREF are gonna fix that because platforms profit from showing growth in repo and commit counts even if it's all dead plastic code.