David Pearce

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14,416 appearances 53 recordings 4 series first heard Jan 2026 last heard 18 Sep

David Pearce’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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The Vergecast · What's behind the Google AI shakeup · 7 Aug 2026 podcast

We are being completely overrun by AI slop, AI generated posts, and importantly, people trying to game these AI systems. voice-verified

And or the converse to lift something out of obscurity and be like, this is a good and valuable and useful source. voice-verified

We are going to give it real shine. voice-verified

They're all caught in the same spiral too, which is that the more important your platform becomes, the more AI stuff gets pointed at it, which makes it worse for actual humans. voice-verified

So the humans leave, so the AI becomes more powerful. voice-verified

Like it it all just kind of death spirals as soon as you add AI creation into the process. voice-verified

Like I spent a lot of time on productivity subreddits because I'm a this is the particular kind of like disease that I have on the internet. voice-verified

Uh and one of the things that has started happening is there there are two kinds of posts you see all the time now. voice-verified

One is a post from somebody being like, what's your favorite? voice-verified

And then uh a thousand people all voice-verified

Essentially hawking their own app at various levels of subtlety. voice-verified

Some people will will bury it in a list of like, here are the five that I really like, and number four like three are like the the three everybody knows. voice-verified

And then number four is a weird, bizarre one that sucks, that there's no way anyone would actually recommend and is clearly being the or you just get people who will just paste a link to their thing in and and hope that that's enough. voice-verified

And what what it turns out is that a lot of this is is an effort to game the system so that when Google's crawlers go looking for best productivity app, they find the thing that says what's the best productivity app, scans the list and fights it back to you on voice-verified

Google's AI overview. voice-verified

And it's like, A, we've just completely poisoned the well because Google's crawlers believe Reddit is full of humans and Reddit is demonstrably no longer full of humans. voice-verified

And B voice-verified

This is now a disaster for both of these platforms. voice-verified

Yeah. voice-verified

It has made them both worse to the point where I don't really trust anything I see on Reddit anymore because everybody is either trying to sell me some weird thing that they vibe coded or is is astroturfing for some brand or another all over these platforms. voice-verified

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