Engineer spots AI-generated posts flooding Reddit's confession subreddits: 'dead internet'
bclavie · x · 2026-10-20
NLP engineer bclavie noticed Reddit keeps recommending "tell-all" subreddits like r/confessions where posts are painfully, obviously AI-generated — pangram-level AI style, with most comments likely AI too — and nobody seems to notice or care. A vivid sighting of the "dead internet" theory in the wild.
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