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2026-06-07 / HACKER NEWS
HN Essay: 'AI Didn't Break the Web — the Dotcons Did, AI Just Turned Up the Volume'
A widely-shared essay argues that platform consolidation ('dotcons') already hollowed out the open web, and that AI scraping and slop are amplifying an existing problem rather than creating a new one. It surfaces the practitioner-skepticism thread common on Hacker News about AI's effect on the open web. Single-source opinion, included as a low-signal read on community sentiment.
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