Posted on 08/12/2025 9:03:33 AM PDT by Openurmind
What if the internet as you know it—teeming with human creativity, genuine conversations, and authentic connections—was already gone? Bold as it sounds, the Dead Internet Theory suggests that much of the web has been overtaken by bots, algorithms, and now, generative AI. Imagine scrolling through your favorite platform, only to realize that the content you’re consuming, the comments you’re reading, and even the conversations you’re having might not be from real people at all. As generative AI continues to evolve, this once-fringe theory is gaining unsettling credibility. Could it be that the internet has quietly transformed into a machine-driven echo chamber, leaving human voices drowned out by artificial ones?
In this breakdown, Wes Roth explores how generative AI is reshaping the digital world, from creating eerily human-like content to influencing social media interactions and even redefining creativity itself. You’ll discover how this shift raises urgent questions about authenticity, trust, and the very nature of online engagement. Is the internet becoming a space where human connection is sidelined in favor of automated efficiency? Or is this just the next step in its evolution? By the end, you might find yourself questioning not just what you see online, but who—or what—is behind it.
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They’re such bad videos. I am thinking actually 80% of new content is AI. Bad voices, and random pictures that are sometimes totally unrelated to the subject at hand.
It’s gotten so bad I am seriously considering canceling my YouTube Premium, which I have loved for years.
Since you predictably jump in to defend this tech no matter how bad it is getting makes me wonder about your priority in keywords and agenda... Defense against common sense and real world examples is very purposefully bottish... lol
Pull back the curtain; it scared me when I did.
They’re such bad videos. I am thinking actually 80% of new content is AI. Bad voices, and random pictures that are sometimes totally unrelated to the subject at hand.
And the AI-generated voice mispronouncing names.
They literally will read a Wikipedia entry and add random pictures.
I just had an in-depth discussion with tech support on a Discord channel. Got my problem resolved after a few, life was good, but something felt... weird. Off, I guess. I copied and pasted the discussion into Chat and asked it if it was an AI bot I was talking to. “97% chance” it was. It had gone through my previous public postings, figured how to say what needed to be said and what to ask, and even used some UK slang like I’m prone to do.
I like people, and I avoid them so I can keep on liking them. But I’m wondering if I’m even going to miss them at all and just glom onto their replacements.
bots probably don’t mispel words.
Thank you for sharing that. I guess Reddit is having big problems too. Apparently AI bots are even having conversations with other AI bots and kicking humans out of the loop altogether...
Plus some web pages are pure garbage. Weak language, repetition, (and more repetition), poor organization. You can tell in seconds it’s a worthless bot site and skip it.
That said, I really like the AI summaries available in good browsers and Grok. They pull from many sources and include their sources by the cited text in their summaries.
I don’t know how the garbage sites and garbage videos can survive.
Comment sections in Youtube videos are full of bots.
You can get bad information from human sources. You can get from machine sources. Same basic problem. We just need to avoid being taken in by increasing razzle dazzle.
But you can hold a human responsible, Responsibility can be ducked and completely negated with machine sources.
This is a HUGE difference....
Not necessarily. You would notice rapid battery depletion on cell phones and observe other network traffic issues.
I think that Internet and phone applications are one of the root causes of our obvious collapse. There isn’t much actual eye-to-eye social interaction these days. Families out to dinner are all texting someone who isn’t there, and so on.
“I think that Internet and phone applications are one of the root causes of our obvious collapse.”
I agree. They have created digital Zombies who are addicted to and dependent on their technology.
Absolutely! Internet content is not as good as can be found in printed books. It is largely cross links to the same sparse material; and, content providers rarely source material on their own.
Yes, I have come to that conclusion also. The internet is dead and useless for anything meaningful and they are now using it to psychologically program and change humanity.
I think people are quite capable of collapsing their civilization without any help from government. This seems to be where we differ: You see a boogeyman in the government, I see people as self-destructive. I view government people as simply a subset of those causing collapse.
Not the Government, the globalists and big tech. Government is just taking advantage of the greed and control the tech and globalists are implementing. But in fact, government is subsidizing much of it with our taxpayer’s money. So they are just as complicit and just as guilty.
Is the driver of a get away car innocent because he “technically” did not actually physically go in the bank and rob it with the others? That is always the government’s defense of these things that enslave us.
All of those people in and around government are just members of the set of people destroying civilization. Their affect is merely more pronounced than what the rest can muster. The problem is the greed, selfishness, and lack of ethics and morals shared by the total population. The government people didn’t cause the rot, they just made the most out of it.
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