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The Internet Will Be More Dead Than Alive Within 3 Years, Trend Shows | All signs point to a future internet where bot-driven interactions far outnumber human ones.


All signs point to a future internet where bot-driven interactions far outnumber human ones.

In early 2024, users’ feeds across a variety of social media platforms were bombarded with AI-generated images of various crustaceans (mostly shrimp) unsettlingly sporting the visage of Jesus. If you create an economic system where attention equals dollars (via ad revenue), then automating that brain-rotting process via bots is basically just an easy way to print money. Some 167 of those sources were masquerading as Russian local news websites that published “egregiously misleading claims about the Ukraine war and primarily use AI to generate content.”

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