AI slop is rapidly destroying the WWW, most of the content is becoming more and more low-quality and difficult to tell if its true or hallucinated. Pre-AI web content is now more like the golden-standard in terms of correctness, browsing the Internet Archive is much better.
This will only cause content to go behind pay-walls, allot of open-source projects will be closed source not only because of the increased work maintainers have to do to not only review but also audit patches for potential AI hallucinations but also because their work is being used to train LLMs and re-licensed to proprietary.
Permissively-licensed projects (which is the majority or FOSS projects out there) could always be re-licensed to proprietary. I publish most of my code under permissive licences and will continue doing that. LLM training doesn't really change anything for me
There’s more to this story than AI slop:
> The general trend so far in 2025 has been way more AI slop than ever before (about 20% of all submissions)
Of course that 20% of AI slop submissions are not good, but there’s an overarching problem with juniors clamoring for open source contributions without having the skills or abilities to contribute something useful.
They heard that open source contributions gets jobs, so they spam contributions to famous projects.