AI Slop Breaks Web Discoverability

Mass production of low‑quality AI content (porn, spam, throwaway summaries and rewrites) is flooding search engines and social feeds, displacing human‑created pages and starving creators of ad traffic. That shift concentrates attention in AI intermediaries (chatbots, aggregator summaries) and reduces the economic returns to independent web publishing and creative labor. — If true, this undermines core assumptions in AI labor and platform policy research and suggests regulation must target downstream distribution and monetization, not just model capability.