It's pretty much just fanfiction for what has painfully obvious and always known: shit gets worse over time until it collapses. The 'dead internet theory' is way more complex and exciting than the mundane truth of this reality.
When the internet was new, all content was original or at least a first occurrence on the net. Since 99.999% of people will never produce anything original, every new person online is just copying something, giving us worse and worse content as we makes copies of copies of copies...
And that's before the internet was even monetized. Once profits start motivating people online this amplifies infinitely. Now, people and companies with no actual desire to host content start creating websites seeking easy profits. And in come the low effort content creation tools and hosting, to allow everyone to quickly publish as much as possible, trying to strike gold.
And while the profit seeking continues in the background, the social media sites come along and turn the internet into a big popularity contest. Now people are doing something even more toxic than just looking for profits, they're hoping to be cool, hoping for personal validation from the masses online. The copy of a copy effect still in full swing.
Add to this the monetization of social media. We now have real people acting like fake people, fake people acting like real people, and fake people acting like fake people trying to trick real people to act like fake people, etc.
I could go on but I'm sure you already get the idea.
I'm not denying that the alphabet groups and corporations heavily manipulate and censor the internet, but in regards to this 'dead internet theory", we'd be stuck with this shitty internet without any help from them.
The only hope there is for the internet is for some brave souls to actually create some original content, or even better create a new medium. With the creation of original forms of content we can reset the chain of making copies of copies, if only for a little while.
There's definitely a lot of bots online, but I think it's more of the 'standard practice of online marketing.'
When it comes to spreading propaganda, and trying to push a consensus, I sadly believe that fewer fake accounts are needed to push herd mentality than one might think.
I'm not denying that the alphabet groups and corporations heavily manipulate and censor the internet, but in regards to this 'dead internet theory", we'd be stuck with this shitty internet without any help from them.
What you described is more like a 'swamp internet theory' where it smells like shit, you can't grow food or anything useful, and there's parasites everywhere.
The dead internet theory is that there's no actual people, that you're talking to a computer most of the time. For example, when Hillary fell down r/politics went from swamp to mountain river in minutes. People were engaging in civil debate and sounded like actual people. A couple hours later it went back instantly. If it were normal people there wouldn't be this on/off switch or pushed narrative.
The Hillary incident may have been AI or a room full of people with a script, but it was something controlled like that.
I don't think the entire internet is dead, but by now there should be some parts that are totally controlled by AI bots. You get a large place like reddit where you don't remember individuals and a bot can easily operate in that environment.
It's pretty much just fanfiction for what has painfully obvious and always known: shit gets worse over time until it collapses. The 'dead internet theory' is way more complex and exciting than the mundane truth of this reality.
When the internet was new, all content was original or at least a first occurrence on the net. Since 99.999% of people will never produce anything original, every new person online is just copying something, giving us worse and worse content as we makes copies of copies of copies...
And that's before the internet was even monetized. Once profits start motivating people online this amplifies infinitely. Now, people and companies with no actual desire to host content start creating websites seeking easy profits. And in come the low effort content creation tools and hosting, to allow everyone to quickly publish as much as possible, trying to strike gold.
And while the profit seeking continues in the background, the social media sites come along and turn the internet into a big popularity contest. Now people are doing something even more toxic than just looking for profits, they're hoping to be cool, hoping for personal validation from the masses online. The copy of a copy effect still in full swing.
Add to this the monetization of social media. We now have real people acting like fake people, fake people acting like real people, and fake people acting like fake people trying to trick real people to act like fake people, etc.
I could go on but I'm sure you already get the idea.
I'm not denying that the alphabet groups and corporations heavily manipulate and censor the internet, but in regards to this 'dead internet theory", we'd be stuck with this shitty internet without any help from them.
The only hope there is for the internet is for some brave souls to actually create some original content, or even better create a new medium. With the creation of original forms of content we can reset the chain of making copies of copies, if only for a little while.
There's definitely a lot of bots online, but I think it's more of the 'standard practice of online marketing.'
When it comes to spreading propaganda, and trying to push a consensus, I sadly believe that fewer fake accounts are needed to push herd mentality than one might think.
What you described is more like a 'swamp internet theory' where it smells like shit, you can't grow food or anything useful, and there's parasites everywhere.
The dead internet theory is that there's no actual people, that you're talking to a computer most of the time. For example, when Hillary fell down r/politics went from swamp to mountain river in minutes. People were engaging in civil debate and sounded like actual people. A couple hours later it went back instantly. If it were normal people there wouldn't be this on/off switch or pushed narrative.
The Hillary incident may have been AI or a room full of people with a script, but it was something controlled like that.
I don't think the entire internet is dead, but by now there should be some parts that are totally controlled by AI bots. You get a large place like reddit where you don't remember individuals and a bot can easily operate in that environment.
Yes, what I described is my opinion on what us really happening, opposed to the 'dead internet theory.'
You don't feel like there are AI bots anywhere? Or just that it's not completely AI bots?