The Dead Internet Theory
This theory first appeared to surface on the Agora Road's Macintosh Cafe forum in 2021, when a user by the name of "IlluminatiPirate" started a thread called "Dead Internet Theory: Most Of The Internet Is Fake." Citing posts from major online discussion forums like 4Chan, the theory posits that non-human bots are responsible for the majority of online activity and content creation.At a top level, the concept is that bots automatically and rapidly craft things like social media posts that are algorithmically tuned for engagement — effectively farming clicks, comments and likes on platforms like Facebook and TikTok. This is because more interactions and engagement can lead to more advertising revenue.
But beneath the surface lies the more insidious notion that the accounts engaging with such content are also bots and AI agents — meaning that all this activity is happening between machines alone, with no human interaction. An even deeper layer to the theory suggests government organizations are even using bots to manipulate human opinions.
This is proposed as a conspiracy today, that its already happened, at scale. Well, to me it sound too dramatic and not current reality. However, I do see this as a possibility in the future, at a grand scale, total dominant scale, if Artificial Intelligence or Artificial General Intelligence is let loose. Think of millions or even billions of self generating AI bots spreading across the web, invading social media and the comment sections of every website. Duplicating websites or creating own websites, hacking and writing algorithms that bends the web to their own purpose, at a speed and timescale you can't even comprehend. It would be easy to imagine a web where humans will feel alienated to be in, even cast out or locked out. Its conceivable that at some point we would need to create a new physically separate internet 2.0 for humans only.
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