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The ‘dead internet theory’ makes eerie claims about an AI-run web. The truth is more sinister (theconversation.com)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I think, we may frequent very different parts of the internet and thus have different views on how much is AI generated. Maybe you're right and Reddit/Xwitter/Facebook/etc are dominated by bots, I can't judge on my own about that

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

So where exactly on the internet are you that's bot free?

News articles are pumping out AI stories, websites chat help is often AI bots, social media is literally a bot farm with human spectators.

Unless you are reading blogs from people you know who aren't familiar with chat GPT, or you're entirely online for small/niche discussion groups, I'd say you're exposed to far more AI content than you realize.

I'm not suggesting everything is fake bot content with some people mixed in yet, but in 5 years it probably will be.

Much harder for people to organize, or even get exposed to reality, if their digital experience is a walled garden of pushed bot content.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Well, first of all, yes, I am mostly either in Lemmy, or in Telegram reading small channels.

But even then, I am not against content that is AI generated if it is reviewed and correct. The article talks about outright nonsense, so I supposed that you were talking about that, too.

To be fair, human-generated nonsense is also a kind of content I find good, but it depends a lot and I grew tired of simply meaningless absurd sites lately.

Edit: oh, and I am totally with you on the "yet", we're about to see The Matrix level of isolation from reality some time soon, I guess