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24 alternatives to How to Kill the Dead Internet

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…

D-slop is a free browser extension that detects AI-generated text on websites by analyzing vocabulary, punctuation, and cadence patterns, then assigns a detection score. Users can flag, hide, or block content that… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.

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    Detect AI-generated comments and posts on Reddit

    May 2026 · slopgoggles.ticekralt.com · its alternatives →

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    I’ve been building a crowd-sourced AI detection benchmark. Two responses to the same prompt — one from a real human (pre-2022, provably pre prevalence of AI slop on the internet), one generated by AI. You pick the slop. Three wrong and you’re out. The dataset: 16K human posts from Reddit, Hacker News, and Yelp, each paired with AI generations from 6 models across two providers (Anthropic and OpenAI) at three capability tiers. Same prompt, length-matched, no adversarial coaching — just the model’s natural voice with platform context. Every vote is logged with model, tier, source, response…

    Mar 2026 · slop-or-not.space · its alternatives →

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    I know we are very wary of AI slop but disclaimer: AI was used. I don't think that it is slop though and it was mostly used for formatting.

    Jul 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Detectly▲112

    Sniff out AI slop

    2025 · detectly.xyz · its alternatives →

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    Browser extension to detect AI-generated YouTube scripts.

    Aug 2026 · mauropello.github.io · its alternatives →

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    Hi, I’m Kenny, I’ve been building aislop. I starting working on this after using Claude Code, codex and opencode several times and noticing some slops. They aren’t syntax and passes most tests, they are patterns like empty catch blocks, useless comments, duplicated helpers, dead code and many more. So I built a tool to scan and check for these patterns and wired it into hooks so after each tool call, the agent checks for the slops. You can try it out with npx aislop scan. It’s all local and no code is transferred. Thank you.

    May 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Spot AI-written text in 60 seconds

    Jun 2026 · store.kesslernity.com · its alternatives →

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    Crowd-powered AI slop filter for Reddit ( and soon others )

    Apr 2026 · slopometer.ai · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN, Lately Github PRs have been drowning in a flood of AI slop. I’ve been seeing it myself, and I’m not the only one: https://x.com/mitchellh/status/2011819428061855915 I think it’s great that folks are using AI tools to code faster and better, but too many folks are abusing them to make low-quality contributions to public repos. This takes a lot of reviewers’ mindshare. IMO there needs to be a mechanism to flag low-effort PRs with AI slop, so you can just skip reading them. So I built one: https://haystackeditor.com/slop-detector It’s a simple AI…

    Jan 2026 · haystackeditor.com · its alternatives →

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    The internet's dumbest AI fails, curated.

    Jul 2026 · fullofslop.com · its alternatives →

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    Identify and kill the LinkedIn AI Slop. Local & OpenSource

    2025 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →

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    Make AI-generated text undetectable by AI content detectors

    2023 · undetectio.com · its alternatives →

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    Right-click any post to see if it's AI-generated

    Jul 2026 · slopradar.io · its alternatives →

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    Get a clear plan to improve your website and prevent AI slop

    Sep 2026 · polishory.design · its alternatives →

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    Hide labeled AI content without breaking the web

    Jun 2026 · mt211211.github.io · its alternatives →

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    Free and accurate AI detector to check AI content

    2023 · moxby.com · its alternatives →

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    Quantifies AI-slop so humans can kill it.

    2025 · vibeaxis.com · its alternatives →

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    A passion project I started recently. Please submit your own (or any) website you suspect might score high as "AI-slop" and we'll publish a roast soon. Note that my goal is two-fold: I'll use (most) submitted websites in some research I'm going to be publishing later. Thanks!

    Aug 2026 · shitfa.st · its alternatives →

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    When the LLM so ahh you lowk take over its job

    Mar 2026 · youraislopbores.me · its alternatives →

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    Hey HN. I built a dead-simple CMS for your AI agents — https://slopit.io Kept it minimal and agentic-first. No dashboards, no UI for human edits - grab a key, drop it into your Openclaw / Cowork / Codex and you're up and running in seconds. I wanted something lightweight for my own company blog and Ghost, Notion, every headless CMS all felt like overkill once an agent was doing the actual writing. Launch post (slopped by my own claw) — https://blog.slopit.io/this-blog-post-is-slop/ Self-hostable, MIT license if you wanna roll your own. Lots more…

    Apr 2026 · slopit.io · its alternatives →

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    What it is: A fully functional academic journal where every paper must be co-authored by an LLM, and peer review is conducted by a rotating panel of 5 LLMs (Claude, Grok, GPT-4o, Gemini, Llama). If 3+ vote "publish," it's published. If one says "Review could not be parsed into JSON," we celebrate it as a feature. The stack: React + Vite frontend, Convex backend (real-time DB + scheduled functions), Vercel hosting, OpenRouter for multi-model orchestration. Each review costs ~$0.03 and takes 4-8 seconds. Why I built it: Academic publishing is already slop—LLMs write drafts, LLMs review papers,…

    Dec 2025 · journalofaislop.com · its alternatives →

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    Slopdar▲24

    Is it built, or is it slop?

    Jul 2026 · slopdar.com · its alternatives →

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    Design slop is the feeling that tells you a website is purely AI-generated. This is an attempt to classify the design patterns behind it. Applying this scoring to recent ShowHN submissions shows that about a third of the submissions show medium to heavy design slop: https://slopcop.adriankrebs.ch/show How the scoring works: - A headless browser loads each site (Playwright) - A small in-page script analyzes the DOM and reads computed styles - Every pattern is a deterministic CSS or DOM check. There are false positives, but my manual QA run verified it’s maybe 5-10%. Is design…

    Jul 2026 · slopcop.adriankrebs.ch · its alternatives →

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    A game to test your skill at detecting what's real or slop

    Jun 2026 · aislop.com · its alternatives →

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