The AI Slop Economy Runs on Unpaid Verification

HackerNoon•Sun, Sep 13, 2026, 02:37 PM•2 min read

Everyone says AI made trust the new moat. Shutterstock lost $155. 9M, book revenue fell for human authors, and Wiley has four AI customers.

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