2026-05-08 / Signal #2
AI Slop Is Killing Online Communities
“Your favorite forums are drowning in AI slop. The internet is dying from inside.”
Why It Matters
AI concretely polluting internet culture and human discourse—noise vs. signal collapse, bullshit asymmetry, communities withering into “MoltBook.” Grounded in real builder/creator behavior; future-shock for anyone making things online.
Evidence
Robin Moffatt’s May 6, 2026 post (rmoff.net) exploded on HN (700+ pts, 17h old); concrete examples of low-effort AI Kafka repos, blogs, videos, ebooks spammed across Reddit/Slack/GitHub in early 2026 wave after Claude Opus 4.5.
Sources
Daily scan: 2026-05-08