Your AI Use Is Breaking My Brain
Simon Willison ссылается на статью Jason Koebler из 404 Media о том, как ИИ-генерированный контент в интернете стал невозможно игнорировать, а его фильтрация умственно изматывает и даже начинает искажать стиль обычного человеческого письма. Koebler вводит термин «Зомби-интернет» как более коварную альтернативу «Мёртвому интернету» (где боты общаются с ботами): в «зомби»-версии люди общаются с ботами, создают ИИ-агентов для взаимодействия с другими людьми, а инфлюенсеры-хастлеры массово запускают автоматизированные YouTube-каналы, блоги и аккаунты ради заработка. Всё это превращает интернет в хаотичную смесь человеческого и машинного контента, где границы между ними практически стёрты.
11th May 2026 - Link Blog
Your AI Use Is Breaking My Brain (via) Excellent, angry piece by Jason Koebler on how AI writing online is becoming impossible to avoid, filtering it is mentally exhausting and it's even starting to distort regular human writing styles.
I particularly liked his use of the term "Zombie Internet" to define a different, more insidious alternative to the "Dead Internet" (which is just bots talking to each other):
I called it the Zombie Internet because the truth is that large parts of the internet are not just bots talking to bots or bots talking to people. It’s people talking to bots, people talking to people, people creating “AI agents” and then instructing them to interact with people. It’s people using AI talking to people who are not using AI, and it’s people using AI talking to other people who are using AI. It’s influencer hustlebros who are teaching each other how to make AI influencers and have spun up automated YouTube channels and blogs and social media accounts that are spamming the internet for the sole purpose of making money. It is whatever the fuck “Moltbook” is and whatever the fuck X and LinkedIn have become. It’s AI summaries of real books being sold as the book itself and inspirational Reddit posts and comment threads in which people give heartfelt advice to some account that’s actually being run by a marketing firm. [...]
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This is a link post by Simon Willison, posted on 11th May 2026.
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