AI slop has infiltrated so many areas. Check out this article that was on the front page of HN last week, "73% of AI startups are just prompt engineering", with hundreds of points and lots of comments arguing for or against: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46024644

The problem is the entire article is made up. Sure, the author can trace client-side traffic, but the vast majority of start-ups would be making calls to LLMs in their backend (a sequence diagram in the article even points this out!!), where it would be untraceable. There is certainly no way the author can make a broad statement that he knows what's happening across hundreds of startups.

Yet lots of comments just taking these conclusions at face value. Worse, when other commenters and myself pointed out the blatant impossibility of the author's conclusion, got some responses just rehashing how the author said they "traced network traffic", even though that doesn't make any sense as they wouldn't have access to backends of these companies.