Sure the frog story is a myth but let’s go with it. Often the AI takeover is depicted as a point in time where the tables turn and AI decides humans are no longer necessary. It becomes self aware, self sufficient and turns on the human creators. But that likely won’t be the case and what if we’re already there? This recent post https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2025/07/14/death-by-a-thousand-slops/ on the deluge of bug bounty reports to the Curl public program is not alone in dealing with AI ‘slop’. Ask any hiring manager or recruiter and they’ll likely tell you the same. Hundreds (if not thousands for some areas) of applications for unqualified individuals desperate for work feeding their resumes through genAI prompts to bypass scanners in the hopes of landing a job. And for what? They likely won’t pass the interview stage or if they do, won’t last long on the job. So why are bug bounty reports and job candidates both creating this slop if it’s not actually going to help them? In a way, I think this is ‘AI’s’ doing. People have been convinced (somehow) that chatGPT is their path to financial gain. They exchange their data for hope. But in reality, hiring will need to change and likely bug bounty as well. Neither of these areas are sustainable if the avalanche of slop continues. What will the pivot be and who will it benefit? Has AI manipulated humans already in this sense? One could argue it’s changed behavior, not for the better. And how will this affect industries and how they hire?