Curation breaks under a flood of generated content

"Awesome repositories are no longer awesome" struck a chord. A maintainer of four awesome lists agreed that curation takes real time and that many lists have become catalogs, comparing it to gardening. Others said they used to reach for an awesome list first and have nearly forgotten them, or never saw the point.

The same worry runs through an Ask HN proposing a flag for AI-generated articles. Commenters pointed out that voting can be gamed, that AI detectors are unreliable, and that a flag could add stigma for people who use LLMs lightly. HN's own guidelines now say not to post generated or AI-edited text in comments. In another thread a commenter said AI slop is rampant on social media because it is the easy way to grow accounts.

The pattern: when producing content costs nothing, the scarce thing is someone with taste who keeps it clean. Curated lists, link aggregators and communities are all fighting the same war against low-effort volume.