Dead Internet Theory

[Hyacinth]

The dead Internet theory is an online theory that asserts that the Internet now consists mainly of bot activity and automatically generated content that is manipulated by algorithmic curation, marginalizing organic human activity.

"The U.S. government is engaging in an artificial intelligence powered gaslighting of the entire world population".[1] The date given for this "death" is generally around 2016 or 2017.[1][4][6]

I've been sucking the tit of various online funny picture sites for many years and the content surely has changed and noticeably have been more formulaic.

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[TheKingofVault14]

Hmmm, interesting theory you've got going on here!
I think you're onto something Hyacinth, you're definitely onto something indeed!!!

[Jeff]

Sounds about right. I think the future of the Internet will be more about smaller forums, or "clubs", if you will. I think posting on DAC is similar to playing golf in many ways. Just as golf is a leisurely pursuit where your club reflects your status, navigating DAC is a unique journey through knowledge and discussions.

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[SenisterDenister]

It's certainly a spooky idea but at this point I'd believe it. Seems like the internet keeps getting worse every year.

[Jeff]

bot filled internet is one thing, but with all the chatgpt, dall-e, deepfake etc magic stuff it's probably impossible to discern human and bot content at this point / in the near future. i'm sure if chatgpt 5 hacked my account, crawled my posts and continued posting on my behalf, nobody would notice

not a bad idea really, outsourcing posting to bots so that dac may live forever

nothing wrong with a net full of bots per se i think, just the way they interact with us

[Hyacinth]

Also "link rot", most noticeable in several threads as missing pictures deemed a natural necessity of avoiding to host unused media, comfortably serves "dead internet theory" as a blanket, removing traces of past content. Funny how this golf club has become a vault in itself.

[SenisterDenister]

Forums, as they stand, are a vestige of an internet long gone. Like IRC's.

[Mismatch]

Ded interweb is interesting. I like it. To me it seems to be more of an issue than can be imagined at first glance.
It turns into auto generated conted and bots steering the direction of the public consciousness; gaslighting and controlling the narrative.
And once AI can affordably do this with realistic looking video as well things get interesting.

Related to this (or maybe not) is that I've noticed how alarmigly bad search engines have become. Finding things online is suddenly impossible.
Regardless I'm increasingly living offline.

[Hyacinth]

[Jeff]

Related to this (or maybe not) is that I've noticed how alarmigly bad search engines have become. Finding things online is suddenly impossible.

absolutely related, the results are now mostly ai generated content mill garbage where you have to scroll through 5 pages to not find the answer you were looking for. all of that shit was made for ad revenue, not information. this is why i use chatgpt for a lot of my queries now, it's not great either but at least i can get a fucking answer out of it most of the time, some of the time. it's not half bad once you figure out what sort of questions it can and cannot answer helpfully

Regardless I'm increasingly living offline.

good choice

[SenisterDenister]

I was thinking about this some more, and it occured to me that the reason a lot of people might think there are more bots online may be a lot simpler to explain than the government making sophisticated AI to shitpost online. In the past five years, especially, there has been a huge uptick in third world countries gaining access to the Internet in earnest. High speed internet, smart phones, consoles. They're finally able to have infrastructure that supports first and second world internet capabilities. So what we may think is a bot may just be an ESL. Just a thought.

[ExtremeDrinker]

So how about that new George Carlin special, eh? Eh?

[Mismatch]

I was thinking about this some more, and it occured to me that the reason a lot of people might think there are more bots online may be a lot simpler to explain than the government making sophisticated AI to shitpost online. In the past five years, especially, there has been a huge uptick in third world countries gaining access to the Internet in earnest. High speed internet, smart phones, consoles. They're finally able to have infrastructure that supports first and second world internet capabilities. So what we may think is a bot may just be an ESL. Just a thought.

Fucking shithole countries