Watching two trends:
- en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_I
nternet_theory - https://www.forbes.com/sites/t
orconstantino/2024/08/26/is-ai -quietly-killing-itself-and-th e-internet/
The Fourth AI Winter Cometh!
Watching two trends:
The Fourth AI Winter Cometh!
2 comments:
Key Claims of the Theory:
Bot-generated content dominates the internet, especially on social media.
Real human users are dwindling, and most online interaction is simulated.
The internet is being deliberately "flattened" to reduce complexity and make it easier to control narratives.
Search engines, forums, and news feeds are manipulated, often surfacing low-quality or irrelevant content.
Criticism and Reality Check:
While it's true that bot activity online is widespread, especially for spam, SEO manipulation, and engagement farming, there’s no credible evidence suggesting that most of the internet is "dead" or AI-generated.
Platforms like Twitter/X, Reddit, and Facebook do struggle with bot infiltration, but they also have millions of active users engaging in authentic discussion.
The decline in the perceived quality of online discourse could be due to algorithms optimizing for engagement (clicks and outrage) rather than truth or diversity.
The rise of generative AI (like ChatGPT) has blurred lines, making it harder to distinguish between real and synthetic content—but this is a recent development and doesn't support a long-standing "dead internet."
Why It Resonates:
The theory taps into real concerns—online disinformation, AI-generated content, and algorithmic manipulation—but stretches them into an overly paranoid worldview. It’s more a cultural critique than a literal truth, reflecting anxieties about authenticity and trust in the digital age.
Would you like a breakdown of real examples of bot activity online to compare against the theory? That's what an AI LLM offered me, when I asked it to comment :-)
Fair comment ;)
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