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A video essay on the web’s growing junk problem

Aug 27, 2026

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A blunt argument that AI research tools are quietly poisoning themselves, and that the giveaway isn’t writing style but citations. The video explains the mechanism: most reputable news sites now block AI crawlers, so chatbots asked for research end up scraping whatever remains — often AI-generated content farms with plausible names built specifically to bait models. It also describes post hoc citation, where a model writes its conclusion first and then hunts for anything that appears to back it up, and cites figures on AI-authored news articles, cross-citation between chatbots on health and politics topics, and a sharp rise in fabricated references in academic papers. The creator recounts his own experience chasing down striking claims that turned out to be real quotes on garbage websites, and notes that asking a model to audit its own report often unravels it. The practical advice is simple: manually open and judge every source before publishing.

Summarising The internet is filling with junk by Less Bitter.

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