Jason Koebler describes rise of "Zombie Internet" where AI-generated and AI-assisted content mingles with human-created posts across social platforms

Koebler defines "Zombie Internet" as a state where the internet contains people talking to bots, people creating AI agents to interact with others, people using AI talking to non-AI users, and influencers building automated YouTube channels and blogs to generate money.

The phenomenon includes AI summaries of real books sold as books themselves, Reddit posts where people give advice to marketing-run accounts, and the general difficulty of filtering out AI writing online.

Simon Willison highlighted the piece as an "angry" critique of how AI writing online is becoming unavoidable and mentally exhausting, and is distorting regular human writing styles.