It used to require some real elbow grease to write blogspam, now it's much easier.

I hardly ever go through a post fisking it for AI tells, they leap out at me now whether I want them to or not. As the density of them increases my odds of closing the tab approach one.

It's not a pleasant time to read Show HNs but it just seems to be what's happening now.

> and wonder what an unwinnable struggle it must be for the people who feel they have to work out if everything they read was AI written or not

Exactly!

It never used to be a general blog post problem. It was a problem with the kinds of blogs I'd never read to begin with, but "look, I made a thing!" was generally worth reading. Now, I can't even rely on "look, I made a thing!" blog posts to accurately describe the author's understanding of the thing they made.