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Dead Internet Theory

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Internet_theory
10•RyanShook•4mo ago

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DaveZale•4mo ago
it sure was different 30 years ago... like all conspiracy theories some of it is true.

It is a concern that one search engine dominates.

walpurginacht•4mo ago
opened twitter (now known as X), it's the same automated slop posted over and over again with a singular goal of farming engagements

opened facebook, my favourite groups are now filled with automated reposters

opened youtube, the glaring content farm videos following an obvious template with the same art style narrated by an obvious AI tts greet my feed

it is as if incentifying any sort of engagements through rewards, be it adsense money or just clout, directly correlates with the amount of automated braindead slops

i wish all other sites have the feature to just hide AI-generated content. Future content moderation is going to be insane

add-sub-mul-div•4mo ago
There's nothing worthwhile on the big platforms anymore. They're functionally quarantines keeping the newer platforms from growing too big and losing their quality.
frendiversity•4mo ago
I'm a "real person." I think. Praise God Almighty.
evanjrowley•4mo ago
Whenever I see this Wikipedia article posted, I makes me think of the comments I've seen on very niche YouTube content by people who recognize some things out there are still very genuine. Buried somewhere in the comments on these vids for example:

"Alive Internet Theory" https://youtu.be/Qi8tkNbXjxg?si=hjJf3Gkx_c77ZFLY

"Immortal internet theory" https://youtu.be/SxSKr3WRJeE?si=lHtwwy0nBKHOy0Oo

elcapitan•4mo ago
The most prevalent source of this are people who try to ban the thought that people with different opinions exist by completely categorizing those as "bots", it seems. That's probably because the exposure to the huge variety and huge numbers of those phenomena that were invisible pre-web are just overwhelming to many people.

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