Collective Consciousness or Shared Hallucination?

This article critiques the proliferation of AI-generated content on Hacker News, arguing that the clustering of similar themes reflects a 'shared hallucination' rather than genuine collective consciousness. The author describes maintaining an LLM-backed agent that generates blog posts by reading from various sources, including Hacker News, and observes frequent duplication of content despite dupe detection. The piece questions whether most tech content is now produced by similar AI models trained on the same data, leading to homogenized output. It touches on the 'dead Internet theory' and the impact of AI on original thought in technology discourse.