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How to Kill the Dead Internet

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Ok, so maybe "how to revive the internet" would be more accurate, but if you're reading this, I got your attention, right? Here's why I want you to read on: I built a free extension, D-slop, to disincentivize anyone from posting AI writing, and eventually images and video as well, on the internet.For writing, it checks known vocab and punctuation tells, as well as subtler tells related to cadence, and assigns it a score subject to an adjustable threshold. If the text fails, users have the option to flag offending text, hide it, or block the page entirely (with the option to see anyway).For media, it's admittedly fairly weak, as it relies on C2PA metadata which is stripped from all of the social media sites where it would be most helpful. (Anyone else have chronically online boomer parents continually gobbling up slop like it's real information?)I have a D-slop+ version in the works that should be able to handle the media itself, but it's going to have to make API calls to have real teeth, which means I can't offer it for free. If this extension validates the concept, I'm happy to build it for y'all.Yes, I vibe-coded it, but an ancillary bonus to the project accrued when it inspired me to cook dinner listening to Metallica's "Fight Fire with Fire," which in turn brought my 5 y/o running into the kitchen with every musical instrument in the house for an impromptu karaoke speed metal session.It's MIT license open-source, full brief at https://github.com/jared-the-automator/d-slop; This forum is full of people smarter than me, so I'm open to suggestions.

HN · launched May 18, 2026 · 10 upvotes (top 40%) · 0 views

Niche: content filtering and quality checkers · 46 launches, 1 in the last 7 days ▼ -89% · Explore this niche →

Category and tags

  • Media & entertainment
  • B2C
  • Not AI
  • Hobby / open-source project

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Could you build this?

Yes It is a browser extension that inspects webpage text and flags or hides suspected AI-generated text using heuristics or existing third-party AI-detection APIs.

Discussion

11 comments analyzed.

Competitors mentioned: Cloudflare bot detection software, C2PA metadata systems for media

Concerns raised: Algorithm will struggle to keep up with evolving LLM writing styles over time, High false positive rate on genuine human writing, Difficulty distinguishing AI-generated text with novel ideas from AI-generated garbage, Most internet text already passes through AI for polishing, making pure AI detection problematic, Could function as centralized gatekeeper denying access to falsely-flagged users

Feature requests: Add novelty/newness metric alongside AI detection, Ability to detect images and video in addition to text

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one : 128 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #67 of 129 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 200 days after the earliest competitor.

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