The last couple of weeks, when using Google to search for technical content, I've often stumbled upon AI-generated blog posts from Restack.io, a startup building AI developer tools. These all seem to be AI generated, and, critically, often seem to be either technically incorrect or at least highly misleading.

The blog posts in question have nothing to do with Restack's own products. They seem to have generated thousands of blog posts on all kinds of technical topics. For example, searching for "Streamlit icons", I found this page:

https://www.restack.io/docs/streamlit-knowledge-streamlit-icon-list-guide

which confidently tells one to use the "st.icon()" function to add icons to your Streamlit app. Streamlit has no such API, and never has; this is completely hallucinated information that was clearly generated by an LLM.

Last week I sunk about an hour into getting a "solution" proposed by a Restack blog post working, only to discover that the approach it was describing simply does not work.

Here's a page that tells you how to deploy Streamlit on AWS Amplify:

https://www.restack.io/docs/streamlit-knowledge-streamlit-aws-amplify-integration

This page is totally bogus. Streamlit is a Python package, and Amplify requires a Node.js program. What it is describing is impossible. But the article is very confident in its tone and wording, making it look like an easy matter of running a few commands. Someone who did not understand this fundamental limitation of Amplify and Streamlit working together could sink a _lot_ of time into trying to debug why it was not working.

Shockingly, they seem to have thousands of these AI-generated blog posts on their site. Here is just the list of the first 100 (out of more than 500) articles about Streamlit that they have generated:

https://www.restack.io/docs/streamlit/kb-index/0

I find this appalling in large part because Restack is an AI company. They are clearly doing this to boost their SEO, but in so doing they are wasting the time of good people who have jobs to do and are used to relying on Google searches to surface useful, relevant content. Even worse, I fear this Restack garbage will end up in the next web crawl used to train future AI models, which will now, themselves, hallucinate back the garbage that Restack has fed them.

Restack, you can do better. Please take down your broken and misleading AI-generated blog posts.

Ironically, once Google catches on that the entire Restack.io site is spam, they will probably stop showing up in any Google searches. I hope the SEO was worth it while it's still live.