| ▲ | ThrowawayR2 11 hours ago |
| If the dead Internet theory wasn't true before, it sure will be soon. |
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| ▲ | post-it 10 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| It's kinda exciting. The social media status quo has its upsides but a lot of downsides. I'm hopeful that the change will be good. We'll have to figure out a way to authenticate the people we're talking to, which will encourage tighter-knit communities. |
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| ▲ | dataviz1000 9 hours ago | parent [-] | | This will end with the only way to authenticate the people we're talking to is meeting them at the coffeeshop in the morning. | | |
| ▲ | post-it 9 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | That might be okay. We'd lose a lot, obviously, but if you could 100% trust that the person you met at a coffee shop is real, and you could 99% trust that the person they met the day before is real, and you could 98% trust the person that person met is real, you've got three degrees of Kevin Bacon. | | |
| ▲ | abathur 9 hours ago | parent [-] | | But can you trust that the things they say aren't just laundered AI blogspam? | | |
| ▲ | post-it 9 hours ago | parent [-] | | Well I trust that the things my friends say aren't laundered AI blogspam. And if they trust the things their friends say, I can likely trust that too. |
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| ▲ | kawfey 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | is anyone using keybase any more? i put it on my website and socials to do just that but it doesn’t seem to have stuck around. | |
| ▲ | arctic-true 9 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Until the humanoid robots gain the ability to process caffeine, then we’re all hosed. | |
| ▲ | Tepix 9 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Did you forget about Blade Runner? | | |
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| ▲ | agilob 10 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Dead Internet is a product now, why aren't you monetizing it yet? |
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| ▲ | MattGaiser 10 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| I would argue SEO should already be considered dead internet theory. Most of it is not intended to do anything but convince Google. A dentist buying freelance articles from a guy off Upwork is not intending to communicate anymore than this guy generating articles is. |
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| ▲ | shevy-java 10 hours ago | parent [-] | | SEO also showed that Google abuses its market position. One wonders why the USA promotes a de-facto monopoly here. |
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| ▲ | shevy-java 10 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Only if we allow it to happen. It is time for the Empire of common man and woman to strike back against AI slop and companies that promote it - such as microslop. |
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| ▲ | pilsetnieks 10 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Great point! At this point the Dead Internet Theory isn't a conspiracy – it's a roadmap. It's worth noting he distinction between "authentic" and "synthetic" online spaces is eroding faster than most people realize – that's a genuinely important conversation to be have. /s |
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| ▲ | IsTom 8 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | > to be have. Meatbag spotted, get 'im boys. | |
| ▲ | nubg 10 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Great imitation | | |
| ▲ | pilsetnieks 10 hours ago | parent [-] | | The dead internet theory terrifies me. I don't think we're at the point where it's mostly dead but we're already way past the point where any discussion worth anything can be had on the internet itself. The problem is not that everything could be AI slop but that anything could. It simply takes the wind out the sails and makes one question what's even the point if anything could just be written by a clanker. Anything you write could just be screaming out into the void, affecting no one, and just maybe adding to the training corpus for the next generation of clankers. Just writing this made me question "what's the point" several times. If you or anyone replies cogently, I still won't have any idea if it's a person or a Chinese room. | | |
| ▲ | shevy-java 10 hours ago | parent [-] | | > The dead internet theory terrifies me. I don't think we're at the point where it's mostly dead Well - I would say the internet is not totally dead yet, but we approach the point of it being very useless now. I remember the 1990s era and early 2000s - it was almost innocent compared to the total slop era we have now. Young people today don't even know that Google Search was useful at one point in time. If you use Google Search now, you get so much irrelevant crap output that it is really useless now. | | |
| ▲ | thadt 9 hours ago | parent [-] | | Ironically, the reason I used Google the most then was because it indexed Usenet while so many other parts of the Internet offered by the other engines were "slop". My, how the turn tables. |
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