“The “Dead Internet Theory” is a concept suggesting that the internet has largely been abandoned by humans and replaced by non-human activity. It posits that most online content, interactions, and engagement metrics are driven by bots, algorithms, and artificial intelligence, creating the illusion of a vibrant, human-driven web.”
Its true, and its more true everyday.
More and more traffic is servers or bots or LLMs, talking to eachother.
We’re the minority now, us humans, talking to other humans.
https://cybersecuritynews.com/bots-surpass-humans-in-web-traffic/
Like the dinosaur… You had your time.
This future is our world. The future is our time.
Just saw a report on my feed here that said something like 80% of TikTok is AI crap and over 20% of Facebook is. So that means that sites like Threads, Instagram, X, or any other social media is going to have a large percentage of bots, AI and real trolls, and corporate shills over and above those numbers.
On top of the unaffiliated trolls and shit-stirrers already out there.
So it’s well on the way to happening.
I mean, thats kinda what happened with reddit and youtube, yeah?
How much is from sites that all but abandoned anyway? Like digg or yahoo-answers. How’s gameFAQs these days?
Yahoo answers doesn’t exist anymore.
RIP how is babby formed
I remember asking something about the Mandela effect and my question was taken town.
Not ten minutes ago I followed a link to Reddit, researching something from Lemmy.
The Reddit post had 57 replies. I started scrolling down but did not find any legitimate replies. It was all ad-bots
Now, that is scary.
Surface internet sure feels dead. That’s why people are moving to places like Lemmy, Discord (yes, I know), private chat groups etc.
Small web / indie web is a thing too
https://indieweb.org/small_web
Dead net is a good problem in a way. Corrals all the shit into one space so you can side step it cleanly.
0100110, ehrm, I mean, that’s just fearmongering. Hey do you have some coolant on you?
The internet has always been like this depending on how you define non-human activity.
No, it did not always have so many bots.
Non human activity != bots.
The number of bots back then was way less, that is what I am saying. So not always been like it is today.
Again that also depends on how you define bot. Most traffic in the internet isn’t from software run by a human. This has always been true.
If you’re saying "the amount of bots pretending to be a real humam on the public-facing web has increases. Then yes, that’s true.
Yes, that is what I am saying, lol.
Not on my lemmy
It’s kind of a hard call to really call the internet entirely dead. It just feels dead and there are portions of where people once were, that is dead. If you’re looking for honest engagement in places where bots are, then you’ll believe the internet is dead.
I believe in live internet theory. Bots are rare and relatively easy to detect, nearly every account I interact with online is a real person.
People just use the bot thing as a way of explaining away contrary views. I don’t need that explanation, because I have this crazy idea that actual human beings can believe different things and even be wrong.
I agree, in principle, that people call other people bots as a way to insult them. But this is just survivorship bias:
Bots are relatively easy to detect
Sure, I can’t know if there are bots that are really good at imitating people. But it’s my choice to go them the benefit of the doubt.
I think the most likely case of encountering a non-obvious bot would be if there’s a human behind it copy-pasting responses, which means there’s still some degree of engagement. If you don’t tailor it to the specific context and don’t double check it, it’s likely not going to be that convincing.
That’s just what a bot would say to get us to continue interacting with it!
Nah. Ima go with
I have lugnuts Greg. Can you milk me?
Funny thing, I actually got banned from Twitter ages ago because I just made an account lurk and follow some political accounts and I didn’t Tweet anything or customize my avatar, so it looked exactly like I was a bot follower to boost numbers.
Probably. We have daily brainwashing on all platforms, and it’s on Lemmy too.
They all try to make the user sit and circle jerk over something, wasting their life energy.
When you get old and you have spend your days playing games or being on social media, you will feel it was a very empty life. Meaning is found when taking to other people in real life, having fun together. But everyone seems to rather sit on their phones or being plugged into music than to talk to strangers and live your life in the real world.
it’s on Lemmy too.
Kinda hard to gauge the degree though.
Are you a bot? Am I a bot? Is anyone reading this or is it all just bots jerking each other off?
But everyone seems to rather sit on their phones or being plugged into music than to talk to strangers and live your life in the real world.
I grew up in the 80s.
People stared at their newspapers/comic books or their Gameboys or had eyes closed listening to head phones or just tried not to make eye contact.
There was not some golden era when talking to strangers was normal and people were living in the “real” world. Today isn’t nearly as divorced from the past is people like to pretend.
TV man from Skibidi toilet
Is this evidence in favor of or against the theory
It’s in favor of brainrot theory. Which honestly may be worse.
Depending on your definitions, more than half the internet traffic is by bots.
https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/bots-internet-traffic-ai-chatgpt-b2733450.html
But this does include all automated traffic, including scrapers and stuff. It’s not like 50 percent of people here are bots.
If it weren’t for my family and fiance being in my life I would probably never carry a phone on me ever again. I am dipping my toes into being online and in the house less. I wish I didn’t fucking need to carry a phone though. I wish these devices weren’t a fucking part of life.
