Xataka: AI could push the internet toward restricted access to curb low-value content

Xataka argues that AI has made content almost free to produce, but not to evaluate. The article cites Daniel Stenberg, who closed cURL’s bug-bounty program in January after receiving a huge number of AI-generated vulnerability reports that were convincing but false. It also says LinkedIn receives 11,000 job applications per minute, 45% more than a year earlier, creating a contest between automated filters and candidates.

According to a BetterUp Labs and Stanford study cited by Xataka, 40% of workers had received AI-generated documents in the previous month that had to be redone, taking almost two hours per case. The analysis says this “slop” spreads the cost among recipients and could lead projects to adopt invitations, paid identity verification, subscriptions and referrals. For Xataka, the result could be a more closed internet in which reputation, relationships and résumés matter more than an unknown person’s ability to be heard.