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Dead Internet Theory Lives: One Out of Three of You Is a Bot
Sam Altman might be onto something.
Most of those bots, you won’t ever directly interact with, as they are crawling the web and indexing websites or performing specific tasks—or, increasingly, collecting data to train AI models. While Altman suggested some of this may be people adopting the quirks and word choices of chatbots, among other factors, he did acknowledge that “the net effect is somehow AI twitter/AI reddit feels very fake in a way it really didnt a year or two ago.” It follows a previous observation he made earlier this month in which he said, “i never took the dead internet theory that seriously but it seems like there are really a lot of LLM-run twitter accounts now.” It’s not dissimilar from a situation earlier this year in which Altman warned that AI tools have “fully defeated” most authentication services that humans rely on to verify their identity and said that, as a result, scams are likely going to explode.
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