🎉 Breaking news: pressing "return" after typing a prompt is now considered AI wizardry! 🤖💰 Our protagonist rants about "AI slop" while being oblivious to their own contribution to the digital landfill. 🚮 Who knew that spewing random thoughts could be so profound? 🌐🙄
https://rmoff.net/2026/05/06/ai-slop-is-killing-online-communities/ #AIwizardry #AIthoughts #DigitalLandfill #TechRants #RandomMusings #HackerNews #ngated
AI Slop is Killing Online Communities

AI Slop is Killing Online Communities
🚨 Breaking news: the New York Times has transformed into a digital landfill, offering a 49MB buffet of #distractions for your #bandwidth delight 🍽️. For those who crave a workout in futility, there's nothing like attempting to load this bloated behemoth just to read four headlines 📉.
https://thatshubham.com/blog/news-audit #digitallandfill #bloat #NewYorkTimes #newsheadlines #HackerNews #ngated
The 49MB Web Page

A look at modern news websites. How programmatic ad-tech, huge payloads and hostile architecture destroyed the reading experience.