#AI music is for bots: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jun/18/up-to-70-of-streams-of-ai-generated-music-on-deezer-are-fraudulent-says-report
That would make another datapoint in support of the #deadinternettheory
On a related note one needs to say that there are in fact successful and massively cool applications of AI. Creating music so far has not been one of them 🎶
"Now we're back to how we were for most of human history: without reliance on photos/video to show us what is true." https://youtu.be/KxzWBqLn6dY
Is AI killing social media?
If AI makes the posts and AI boosts them… what’s left for us?
We unpack the Dead Internet Theory on #ACast735
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I love how even the car people are noticing and aware of the AI/LLM/GenAI slop machine.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gK_vt3xa6xI
@AeonCypher yes and no.
That being said we are the minority who want to use our tech and skills for more and higher goals than "consume ourselves happy"…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwO0CDYxyxc&t=3m37s
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Internet_theory
The Dead Internet Theory invites us to reflect on our online interactions. By prioritizing authenticity and engaging meaningfully, we can create a vibrant digital community. Let’s champion genuine connections and make the internet a better place! 🌟 #DeadInternetTheory #DigitalLandscape #OnlineEngagement #Bots #Authenticity #Technology #SocialMedia #Curiosity #InternetCulture #AI #CommunityBuilding #FutureOfDigital
L'effrayante théorie de l'internet mort par Try
"But the uproar is a sign of something ending—a last gasp from the era of the diligent, human reader who can tell the difference between a real book and a fake one."
A.I.: A freelancer used ChatGPT to write articles with fake books and experts for the Chicago Sun-Times.
https://slate.com/technology/2025/05/ai-chatgpt-controversy-fake-books-chicago-sun-times-philadelphia-inquirer.html #AI #deadinternettheory
just a thought -- the more i learn about the dead internet theory, the more i realize that we're actively swimming in a shrinking pool. i think search engine results will be based on what data AI scoops up for you from their "assigned bag." that meaning AI can only provide results from granted access areas.
"I used to use the internet to escape real life, now i use real life to escape the internet"
I am truly starting to resonate with this
Remember the Dead Internet Theory?
A couple days ago I found a network of AI-generated Wordpress sites and did a surface-level investigation. They're all generated with GPT-4 Turbo — they all have "out of credits" errors on half the pages. There are sites in English, German, French, Spanish, Turkish and probably more. They're backdating posts too so you can't just believe the date of the posts — some sites have just appeared but they have GPT-written posts "from 2016".
They're probably farming ad revenue like crazy, but they need organic visits for SEO right? So they've created a "botnet" of real people who are being paid ~0.35TRY per visit, which works around to roughly 15 TRY/h per hour if you are super efficient. That's 0.4$/h. So it's a sweatshop.
Base of operation? Turkey.
Become mycelium and explore the vast internet. There is so much internet out there created and curated by humans to be surfed.
https://internetphonebook.net/
https://feedle.world/
https://kagi.com/smallweb
https://neocities.org/
Credits to Internet Phone Book for the image 💗
Useless Facts, Badly Drawn 429: The Dead Internet Theory.
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#deadinternettheory #conspiracytheories #internet #bots #spam #ai #algorithms #internetofshit #enshittification #socialmedia #privacy #fake #socialengineering #propaganda #fakenews #webcomic #comics #aboringdystopia #cyberpunk #uselessfacts #uselessfactsbadlydrawn
At this point it slowly makes sense that everyone you meet online is a bot. Maybe it’s you, maybe it’s me? 🤔
#reddit #deadinternettheory #manipulation
Interesting take on how Google and others try to get rid of human contribution to increase their market share even if it comes at the price of reducing the total size of the market:
At Target, I managed a team that reset part of the store daily. It programmed shoppers for variety, but there was also the aspect in article. People who are lost in a store spend more money. https://sebs.website/blog/the%20gruen-transfer-is-consuming-the-internet #deadinternettheory, #consumerism
The more time I spend on Meta apps, the more I believe in the dead internet theory.
#meta #socialmedia #deadinternettheory
