Are You Talking to Bots? The Alarming Truth About the Dead Internet Theory

Geeky Gadgets ^ | July 1, 2025 | Julian Horsey

[Rennes Templar]

I’ve always questioned who and what is behind anything on the internet.

[TiGuy22]

You can normally tell a bot when they don’t reply. They say something bombastic and get a lot of blow back but never respond.

[DesertRhino]

I only trust you and me. And I’m not sure about you.

[Frank Drebin]

I've been talking to them for decades.

[Jamestown1630]

I’ve had more than one conversation on Free Republic that made me wonder if a human being was really on the other end...

[Valpal1]

Fakebook and Reddit are awash in AI content and fake comments.

[dfwgator]

I would dare say that now at least half of new YouTube videos are AI-generated.

[Grampa Dave]

So!? Is Jim Rob/and his sons for real????

[dfwgator]

And AI bands, as well. And Spotify is passing them off as real artists.

[Tell It Right]

[Worldtraveler once upon a time]

"Could it be" that ----

So much of what is posted to various web sites as "news" is rudimentary, repetitive marketing?

After all, that web page has a YouTube video as well as the "Latest Geeky Gadgets Deals" and the "raising concerns about authenticity and manipulation" doesn't seem to be such an issue for all those selling and pleading for Patreon and BuyMeACoffee and GoFundMe and the like.

Geeky Gadgets is a British web domain and company, in operation since December, 2007. Looks like two guys -- Julian Horsey and Roland Hutchinson -- writing articles and -- wait for it -- selling stuff. "Buy now." That's the message at the bottom of the page. M A R K E T I N G

One observes at the VERY bottom of the web page is a section for comments. Since 1 July 2025, the date of the article, there have been NO COMMENTS.

But as they "disclaim: --- "Some of our articles include affiliate links. If you buy something through one of these links, Geeky Gadgets may earn an affiliate commission." M A R K E T I N G

While the internet "could be" dead, marketing will never die.

[Snowybear]

Much of the videos on YouTube are AI narrated. Unless you actually see a human talking it’s 99.9% AI.

-SB

[dfwgator]

You can pretty much generate content with just AI Agents, and you don’t even have to do any work, it will just scour websites and videos and come up with the content and publish it, as if it were your own.

[dfwgator]

Social Media is now getting “Usenetted”, once spam took over people just stopped using it.

[SaveFerris]

A great movie

[ptsal]

My hunch is that Grok and Leo are just five sweaty little geeks sitting on the floor with their laptops and pounding out replies to questions.

[Revel]

“I would dare say that now at least half of new YouTube videos are AI-generated.”

Agreed, and its getting worse. Fake story after fake story.

[RoosterRedux]

I wrote what I thought was an insightful comment on a YouTube video and got accused of being an AI bot. Why bother writing something good if people will just give the credit to AI?

From now on, my comments will be full of great ideas—wrapped in bad punctuation and broken English.

Oh no, my comment included an mdash. More accusations on the way.;-)

[dfwgator]

I wrote what I thought was an insightful comment on a YouTube video and got accused of being an AI bot. Why bother writing something good if people will just give the credit to AI?

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This is happening with music. Even if the music is done live, there will be suspicion that the lyrics were written with the help of AI. Just type in prompt describing the “plot” of the song, and it will crank out the lyrics. Everyone can now be “Bob Dylan”.