So, there's this band that supposedly has existed since 2010s. It has some videos on Youtube. Some live recordings as well. A lot of comments there. It also has a homepage and Bandcamp page.

All seems well, except one small detail. I don't remember such band from that time. Hmm, strange...

Anyway, yesterday, while watching one of their live videos, I noticed a glitch and it struck me that I'm probably watching AI generated slop. Checked out some of their other videos and found some other glitches. Everything is very believable, bad sound quality, live singing, shaky camera and all that... except those small glitches.

In short, it's possible that this band doesn't exist. What's more, it probably has never existed. Could it be some kind of an experiment? Maybe they are testing whether they can pull such thing off?

Sure, I know there are a lot of fake things out there. What makes this one stand out, however, is its retroactivity. As if it already existed. In short, retroactive molding of our reality.

There's a dead internet theory. Which states that the internet is actually much, much emptier than it seems. That most of the internet is actually generated by bots and AI. What if they are trying to do the same with reality itself? Like, how many facts and events you have actually witnessed yourself in real life? How many you've just discovered and read about on the internet? The only way to be sure that something did in fact happen or existed before is to cross reference it in real life. Meet some people who actually do remember it being a thing. Or have witnessed it. Or participated in it.

What I'm talking here is manufacturing of events and facts which not only are fake, but which have never existed before their introduction into our info sphere. It's like inventing new Shakespeare who's not only fake, but who has never existed before. Not in 1500s, not in 1990s, not in 2000s.

Well, I don't know I'm correct on this or not, but it seemed like a scary thought. That they are aiming and soon might be able to fake not only current events, but the actual reality itself. It's a thin line between a simple fake and a retroactive one, but it's a significant one.