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Dead Internet Theory

10 points by RyanShook 1y ago

DaveZale 1y ago
it sure was different 30 years ago... like all conspiracy theories some of it is true. It is a concern that one search engine dominates.
walpurginacht 1y ago
opened twitter (now known as X), it's the same automated slop posted over and over again with a singular goal of farming engagements opened facebook, my favourite groups are now filled with automated reposters opened youtube, the glaring content farm videos following an obvious template with the same art style narrated by an obvious AI tts greet my feed it is as if incentifying any sort of engagements through rewards, be it adsense money or just clout, directly correlates with the amount of automated braindead slops i wish all other sites have the feature to just hide AI-generated content. Future content moderation is going to be insane
- add-sub-mul-div 1y ago
  There's nothing worthwhile on the big platforms anymore. They're functionally quarantines keeping the newer platforms from growing too big and losing their quality.
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frendiversity 1y ago
I'm a "real person." I think. Praise God Almighty.
evanjrowley 1y ago
Whenever I see this Wikipedia article posted, I makes me think of the comments I've seen on very niche YouTube content by people who recognize some things out there are still very genuine. Buried somewhere in the comments on these vids for example: "Alive Internet Theory" https://youtu.be/Qi8tkNbXjxg?si=hjJf3Gkx_c77ZFLY https://youtu.be/Qi8tkNbXjxg?si=hjJf3Gkx_c77ZFLY "Immortal internet theory" https://youtu.be/SxSKr3WRJeE?si=lHtwwy0nBKHOy0Oo https://youtu.be/SxSKr3WRJeE?si=lHtwwy0nBKHOy0Oo
elcapitan 1y ago
The most prevalent source of this are people who try to ban the thought that people with different opinions exist by completely categorizing those as "bots", it seems. That's probably because the exposure to the huge variety and huge numbers of those phenomena that were invisible pre-web are just overwhelming to many people.

10 points by RyanShook 1y ago

it sure was different 30 years ago... like all conspiracy theories some of it is true. It is a concern that one search engine dominates.

walpurginacht 1y ago

opened twitter (now known as X), it's the same automated slop posted over and over again with a singular goal of farming engagements opened facebook, my favourite groups are now filled with automated reposters opened youtube, the glaring content farm videos following an obvious template with the same art style narrated by an obvious AI tts greet my feed it is as if incentifying any sort of engagements through rewards, be it adsense money or just clout, directly correlates with the amount of automated braindead slops i wish all other sites have the feature to just hide AI-generated content. Future content moderation is going to be insane

add-sub-mul-div 1y ago
There's nothing worthwhile on the big platforms anymore. They're functionally quarantines keeping the newer platforms from growing too big and losing their quality.

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frendiversity 1y ago

I'm a "real person." I think. Praise God Almighty.

evanjrowley 1y ago

Whenever I see this Wikipedia article posted, I makes me think of the comments I've seen on very niche YouTube content by people who recognize some things out there are still very genuine. Buried somewhere in the comments on these vids for example: "Alive Internet Theory" https://youtu.be/Qi8tkNbXjxg?si=hjJf3Gkx_c77ZFLY https://youtu.be/Qi8tkNbXjxg?si=hjJf3Gkx_c77ZFLY "Immortal internet theory" https://youtu.be/SxSKr3WRJeE?si=lHtwwy0nBKHOy0Oo https://youtu.be/SxSKr3WRJeE?si=lHtwwy0nBKHOy0Oo

elcapitan 1y ago

The most prevalent source of this are people who try to ban the thought that people with different opinions exist by completely categorizing those as "bots", it seems. That's probably because the exposure to the huge variety and huge numbers of those phenomena that were invisible pre-web are just overwhelming to many people.