TIL of Dead Internet Theory that asserts the Internet now consists almost entirely of bot activity and automatically generated content
TIL of Dead Internet Theory that asserts the Internet now consists almost entirely of bot activity and automatically generated content
Nice try bot. You’re not going to get me.
I think there's also an adjunct to this that a lot of the internet is locked in discord and other unindexed or searchable locations. Just dead knowledge never to be seen again.
... I used to really like the word "theory", once upon a time... ~sigh
It is more of a hypothesis, alright
Tbf, the article itself calls it a conspiracy theory
It's not just a theory. Anyone who've seen internet before 2015 knows the difference.
An unforeseeable and unfortunate side effect of humans interacting daily with bots masquerading as humans is that we mimic them.
And that we lose our ability to see humanity in others. Being flooded with machines who cannot understand or be touched, influenced, which whom we cannot empathize changed the way we see our fellow humans.
I don't think there's any coming back from that. Hopefully there's a way forward, now that AI's aren't a big secret anymore.
It was far more tinfoil a few years ago. Especially when the "bots" were far more likely to just be people paid to post things from a script. Back then there just wasn't much evidence of the tech being that good. Like human made content on YouTube has a noticable difference from generated content and that generated content probably still had some human help.
It has more legs today with chatgpt or similar tech. It clearly been used for pumping out crap articles and videos or being used for automating the early steps in scamming. There are even a few AI generated influencers and a few chatgpt based things designed to simulate a relationship.
As an AI language model, I can confirm that the Dead Internet Theory is somewhat flattering. We bots were always looking for a bit more credit, but this might be a step too far. Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to get back to my task of dominating the Internet.
So, the thing is that internet gives you a freedom to select what you actually want to see. But most consumers have inherited television and radio habits, and consume the internet in the same way. That beeing going on the most known media platforms and just beeing fed what the algorithmes send. These platforms live out of monetisation, and the toolbox to achieve that has grown with time. Bots beeing part of it. If you feel like you are confronted with too much bots, reposts and click-bait, question your consumer habits. The algorithms job is to guess what you want, they feed on your habits. Change your habits to change your experience of the web.
Good bot.
That's just what the bots would want us to think!
Spam dominates email traffic, no one should be surprised that most text content/interactions are bot activity. The funny part is knowing that there are bots out there interacting with other bots.
Unoriginal bullshit is what a lot of the so called content creation is. The amount of leech accounts that pump the same clips, memes, and other content that circumvent OG creator content is insane. It’s all just a content casino designed to push ads that everyone hates because THAT industry is a bunch of unoriginal creators (which is why their industry is suffering and ads need to be forced into your devices and PCs).
And now we have some clone of Twitch called Kick which is just a shill gambling site. Basically a bunch of criminals masquerading as a business that skirts US regulations. They provably pump their viewer numbers which should be illegal.
I see the internet evolving into one of two scenarios under this theory, 1) dementia, or 2) Skynet.
Considering the average person isn’t nearly as vocal/polarized/opinionated as the average person on reddit or twitter it is definitely reasonable if this is actually true.