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Whisper , in TIL of Dead Internet Theory that asserts the Internet now consists almost entirely of bot activity and automatically generated content

So, the thing is that internet gives you a freedom to select what you actually want to see. But most consumers have inherited television and radio habits, and consume the internet in the same way. That beeing going on the most known media platforms and just beeing fed what the algorithmes send. These platforms live out of monetisation, and the toolbox to achieve that has grown with time. Bots beeing part of it. If you feel like you are confronted with too much bots, reposts and click-bait, question your consumer habits. The algorithms job is to guess what you want, they feed on your habits. Change your habits to change your experience of the web.

Zathras , in TIL bee suits are customarily white because by wearing white, a beekeeper can approach and open the hive without the bees becoming defensive and attacking as bees dislike dark coloured animals.

Insert beehaw.org joke here

cedarmesa , (edited ) in TIL bee suits are customarily white because by wearing white, a beekeeper can approach and open the hive without the bees becoming defensive and attacking as bees dislike dark coloured animals.
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someguy3 , in TIL bee suits are customarily white because by wearing white, a beekeeper can approach and open the hive without the bees becoming defensive and attacking as bees dislike dark coloured animals.

Here I thought it was because it was cooler.

tentphone , in TIL bee suits are customarily white because by wearing white, a beekeeper can approach and open the hive without the bees becoming defensive and attacking as bees dislike dark coloured animals.

TIL bees are racist

Cap , in TIL of Dead Internet Theory that asserts the Internet now consists almost entirely of bot activity and automatically generated content
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I see the internet evolving into one of two scenarios under this theory, 1) dementia, or 2) Skynet.

SpaceMonk , in TIL of Dead Internet Theory that asserts the Internet now consists almost entirely of bot activity and automatically generated content
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Unoriginal bullshit is what a lot of the so called content creation is. The amount of leech accounts that pump the same clips, memes, and other content that circumvent OG creator content is insane. It’s all just a content casino designed to push ads that everyone hates because THAT industry is a bunch of unoriginal creators (which is why their industry is suffering and ads need to be forced into your devices and PCs).

And now we have some clone of Twitch called Kick which is just a shill gambling site. Basically a bunch of criminals masquerading as a business that skirts US regulations. They provably pump their viewer numbers which should be illegal.

dedale , in TIL of Dead Internet Theory that asserts the Internet now consists almost entirely of bot activity and automatically generated content
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It's not just a theory. Anyone who've seen internet before 2015 knows the difference.

An unforeseeable and unfortunate side effect of humans interacting daily with bots masquerading as humans is that we mimic them.

And that we lose our ability to see humanity in others. Being flooded with machines who cannot understand or be touched, influenced, which whom we cannot empathize changed the way we see our fellow humans.

I don't think there's any coming back from that. Hopefully there's a way forward, now that AI's aren't a big secret anymore.

borkcorkedforks ,

It was far more tinfoil a few years ago. Especially when the "bots" were far more likely to just be people paid to post things from a script. Back then there just wasn't much evidence of the tech being that good. Like human made content on YouTube has a noticable difference from generated content and that generated content probably still had some human help.

It has more legs today with chatgpt or similar tech. It clearly been used for pumping out crap articles and videos or being used for automating the early steps in scamming. There are even a few AI generated influencers and a few chatgpt based things designed to simulate a relationship.

TheKingBee , (edited ) in TIL of Dead Internet Theory that asserts the Internet now consists almost entirely of bot activity and automatically generated content
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I think there’s also an adjunct to this that a lot of the internet is locked in discord and other unindexed or searchable locations. Just dead knowledge never to be seen again.

DreamySweet , in TIL of Dead Internet Theory that asserts the Internet now consists almost entirely of bot activity and automatically generated content
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More info: forum.agoraroad.com/index.php?threads/dead-intern…

LegalAction , in TIL the UK’s oldest joke is a crude riddle that features in the Exeter Codex and dates back to the 10th Century AD - What hangs at a man’s thigh and wants to poke the hole that it’s often poked bef...

That’s surely not true for a number of reasons. The UK wasn’t a thing, and modern English wasn’t a thing. Beowulf has a fair bit of jokes in it, and that’s some 200 years earlier, in Old English, than this thing.

Hell, I’m pretty sure Plato’s Symposium starts out with a three word pun. That’s Greek and not English of course, but the idea of picking out an earliest joke is just ridiculous.

Azzu , in TIL of Dead Internet Theory that asserts the Internet now consists almost entirely of bot activity and automatically generated content

That’s just what the bots would want us to think!

Candelestine , in TIL of Dead Internet Theory that asserts the Internet now consists almost entirely of bot activity and automatically generated content

… I used to really like the word “theory”, once upon a time… ~sigh

hughperman ,

It is more of a hypothesis, alright

Eccentric ,

Tbf, the article itself calls it a conspiracy theory

BaroqueInMind , (edited )
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The word has mutated into common parlance meaning "hypothesis" and I literally hate it so much.

Usually_Lurker , in TIL of Dead Internet Theory that asserts the Internet now consists almost entirely of bot activity and automatically generated content
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Nice try bot. You’re not going to get me.

chackl , (edited ) in TIL that because of the amount of time it saves, the washing machine has been called "the greatest invention of the industrial revolution.” Others have considered it a key driver of women’s liberat...

Don’t some communities that reject most modern technology still use washing machines?

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