AI-generated spam is flooding emails, forums, and feeds undetected

AI-generated spam has reached a scale where it degrades trust and utility across virtually every digital communication channel—email inboxes, Reddit, YouTube, product forums, and algorithmic feeds. Founders, community moderators, and everyday users are the primary victims, facing unsolicited AI-crafted cold emails, bot-driven forum posts with no real author, and AI slop farms gaming recommendation algorithms. Current spam filters, platform moderation pipelines, and even human appeal processes are failing because AI content is coherent enough to evade heuristic detection and is produced at volumes that overwhelm manual review. Platforms have a perverse incentive to tolerate it since bot activity inflates engagement metrics, and automated appeals (as seen with YouTube copyright claims) remove any meaningful human recourse. The result is a breakdown of authentic human interaction online—some communities like the revived Digg have already shut down because they could not contain it.

• A large portion of the content on the internet is now generated by AI. You can and do have full conv

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• I'm tired of talking to people telling them to stop talking to an AI AI generated slop has exploded

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• See my comment in this thread - I got an email from "someone" (an AI clearly) that signed up for my

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• I've already received spam email from AI agents using a seeming competitor to this (agentmail.to) an

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