#dead-internet-theory — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #dead-internet-theory, aggregated by home.social.
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#PassionSondages ☝️😐
[ANNONCE SONDAGE]
SUJET : L'IA 🦾🤖 et vous 💪😡
Ce futur sondage aura pour objectif de vous laisser voter pour divers sujets et items sous la forme de sondages à 4 choix (parfois choix unique, parfois choix multiples).
Le thread sera en anglais afin d'en assurer une large diffusion.
Si vous avez des idées de questions, je prends ! 🤗 (Et crediterai)
#AI #NoAI #AISlop #LLM #MachineLearning #Algorithms #GenAI #AIArt #AIAds #Hallucinations #Dev #Code #AIMaths #AiMusic #AIResearch #DeadInternetTheory #MassSurveilance #AINeutrality #ChatGPT #Gemini #Suno #Midjourney #Prompts #IHaveNoMouthAndIMustScream #RokosBasilisk #EndOfWork #DeepFake
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I posted this at #reddit a couple days ago, on /r/DeadInternetTheory
It received very little attention, which isn't surprising.
What was surprising is that the mods both locked it and removed it. Seems a little like overkill but who knows.
#ai #deadinternettheory #deadinternet #internet #robot #robots #fuckai #mindcontrol #manipulation #bot #bots
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“The internet as a whole was created with this very basic notion that there’s a human being on the other side of the computer screen, and that notion is very rapidly being replaced.”
You're a bot. I'm a bot. Everybody's a bot. 🤖
#DeadInternetTheory #Online #RiseOfTheMachines #AI #Bots
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/26/ai-bots-humans-internet.html
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New York Times: Chatbots Are Pushing Us Toward a Post-Human Internet. This link goes to a gift article. “Depending on whom you ask, bot loops might be banal, dystopian or genuinely useful. No matter how people feel about them, researchers say we’re going to see bot loops much more often as we deputize A.I. systems to do our bidding.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/08/18/new-york-times-chatbots-are-pushing-us-toward-a-post-human-internet/ -
Cloudflare says humans could become a "rounding error" as bots generate 1,000 times more internet traffic
> AI agents are accelerating the rise of non-human traffic
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The dead internet theory. The internet is dead because it was murdered.
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I can't tell if dead internet theory is happening over at Gram.social or if there's some sort of Eternal September situation going on with a bunch of Gen Z'ers from the Middle East who just discovered that particular Pixelfed instance (or perhaps it's a little bit of both). For anyone who has an account on Gram.social, just browse through the Discover/Trending tab or local feed to see what I'm talking about.
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Another area where AI crap is stealing and making things worse: the background of YouTubers...
Plagiarism will ruin our beloved internet at a very high rate now 🙄
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@juergen_hubert
Ask yourself, "How can I find out more about the 'Dead Internet Theory'"?
Then do it.
Bong hits 4 Jesus.
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"The #deadinternettheory has floated around internet forums since the 2010s, and the idea that the internet is dominated by non-human activity was often dismissed as a fringe conspiracy. Now it has become a measurable fact. Not only do multiple cybersecurity firms agree that bots outnumber humans online, they likewise are struggling to answer when the flip happened or what metrics to use to measure it.
CloudFlare, the Internet security and performance giant used by millions of websites worldwide, says the crossover occurred in June, with bots generating 57.5% of webpage requests. Thales, a French tech group that protects data security for organizations and governments, dates the crossover back to 2023, issuing a “Bad Bot Report” that put bot traffic at 53% in 2026.”https://fortune.com/2026/07/23/dead-internet-theory-bots-agents-majority-web-traffic/
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Remember, kids:
In proper scientific terms, an attempt to explain observable phenomena is called a "hypothesis".
It is called a "theory" when it fits all the observable facts, and there is no observable evidence to the contrary. We don't call it a "truth" because there's always a chance that it might be overturned by later evidence - but as far as science is concerned, a "theory" is as hard as it gets.
This is often confusing to people who dismiss science they don't like as "it's just a theory". But this distinction should be kept in mind when discussing things like the "Theory of Evolution", "Theory of Relativity", "Global Warming Theory", and "Dead Internet Theory".
#PSA #Evolution #GlobalWarming #DeadInternetTheory #Science #Theory
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The Dead Internet theory.
The Internet is dead because it was murdered.
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"The dead internet theory has floated around internet forums since the 2010s, and the idea that the internet is dominated by non-human activity was often dismissed as a fringe conspiracy. Now it has become a measurable fact. Not only do multiple cybersecurity firms agree that bots outnumber humans online, they likewise are struggling to answer when the flip happened or what metrics to use to measure it.
CloudFlare, the Internet security and performance giant used by millions of websites worldwide, says the crossover occurred in June, with bots generating 57.5% of webpage requests. Thales, a French tech group that protects data security for organizations and governments, dates the crossover back to 2023, issuing a “Bad Bot Report” that put bot traffic at 53% in 2026.
The discrepancies reflect that there’s no one standard way to measure bot traffic, as no single provider has access to activity across the entire web, according to Rudy Yang, Pitchbook’s enterprise and retail fintech analyst who wrote the firm’s July report about agentic AI traffic.
“There’s a lot of missing pieces of information, but a lot of the observed data suggests the same thing, which is like there is more bot activity,” Yang told Fortune. “Agentic AI activity is driving a lot of the browser activity you’re seeing.”"
https://fortune.com/2026/07/23/dead-internet-theory-bots-agents-majority-web-traffic/
#DeadInternet #DeadInternetTheory #AI #GenerativeAI #AIAgents #AgenticAI
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Internet Is No Longer for Human Fleshbags
(quango-note: actually, it was originally for the continuation of weapons command-and-control ...)
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I miss Web 1.0, and despair that as #DeadInternetTheory takes hold, we humans find ourselves unable to salvage much worthwhile from the #Web of old.
We’ll have to kitbash something frail and new as (drawing vague analogy from @cstross’ “Accelerando”) we languish in the boonies with discarded instantiations of Lovecraft, watching as something vast, dark, and inscrutable devours the sun to feed its endless, fecund need to vomit forth paperclips.
http://archive.today/2026.02.15-225700/https://www.wired.com/story/made-in-china-niche-websites-are-seeing-a-surge-of-mysterious-traffic-from-china/ #ai #bots
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Surfen wir in einem Netz der Geister? 👻
Die Dead Internet Theory behauptet, dass der Großteil des heutigen WWW nicht mehr von echten Menschen, sondern von Bots, Algorithmen und KI-generierten Inhalten dominiert wird. 🤖
Aber stimmt das auch und wie können wir menschliche Stimmen von künstlich erzeugten Inhalten unterscheiden?👉 In unserem neuen Artikel findet ihr Antworten. Jetzt lesen auf:
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I soldati fantasma della vecchia SEO
Se analizzate i dati di un sito web, prima o poi vi imbatterete in un piccolo spettacolo dell’assurdo: la Teoria dell’Internet Morto. E no, non è solo una suggestione da paranoici del digitale. È una fotografia sempre più credibile di ciò che il web è diventato: una massa enorme di traffico artificiale, bot, scraper, siti fantasma e automi lasciati andare avanti per inerzia, come vecchie fabbriche con le macchine ancora accese dentro capannoni vuoti. La maggior parte dei link che […]https://leargenteetesteduovo.com/2026/06/05/i-soldati-fantasma-della-vecchia-seo/
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NBC News: Bot web traffic has overtaken human web traffic, data shows. “Website traffic from AI agents and bots has eclipsed its human-generated counterpart for the first time, according to Cloudflare, an earlier-than-expected milestone that speaks to AI’s rapid advance and impact.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/06/05/nbc-bot-web-traffic-has-overtaken-human-web-traffic-data-shows/ -
Irish internet traffic, mostly bots. Thanks Amazon. Via https://radar.cloudflare.com/bots/ie
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Promised an age of superconnectivity, we’ve let our shared physical spaces wither, only to find our promised digital commons to be one large billboard increasingly read and created by bots.
.. so begins this thought provoking article..
.. and they go further..Every investor presentation of an AI agent “doing the work of ten analysts” is telling you the same thing: the product is labor replacement. The gentler language (”copilot,” “assistant,” “augmentation”) is marketing. The financial model underneath requires the elimination of human cost centers at civilizational scale
Read the full article here:
https://www.owenmcgrann.com/p/the-dead-economy-theory#DeadEconomyTheory #DeadInternetTheory #TouchGrasa #DigitalJustice #Ai #economy #investment
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#AISlop 🤖 #AntiAIArt 🚫 #HumanMade ✍️ #SupportArtists 🎨 #DeadInternetTheory 🌐 #OriginalArt ✨ #Typography ✒️ #GrungeStyle 🎸 #StreetwearDesign 👕 #CreativeProtest ✊ #GraphicDesigner 💻 #ArtCommunity 🖼️ #HandDrawn 📝 #EdgyAesthetic 💀 #AuthenticArt 💯 #HumanCreativity 🧠 #NoAI 🙅♂️ #DigitalDecay 📉 #BoldTypography 📢 #VisualArts 🎭 📸 #StatementTee 👕 #ArtLife 🖌️ #CounterCulture 🏴 #SupportRealArt 💖
#JoseloRochaArt #JoRo
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Let’s be honest: your AI slop bores me. 🥱 In a world drowning in synthetic media and generative algorithms, the soul of human creativity is being buried under a mountain of low-effort content. This design is a rallying cry for originality and a middle finger to the dead internet theory.Whether you’re a graphic designer, traditional artist, or just someone tired of the AI-generated aesthetic, this hand-drawn typography celebrates the imperfections that make authentic art worth looking at. Stop settling for algorithmic prompts and start supporting human-made designs. It’s time to move past the digital decay and bring back real artistic expression. ✍️✨
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https://joselorochaart.dashery.com/products/93135486-your-ai-slop-bores-me-t-shirt -
Man, I’m so happy I quit YouTube.
AI slop channels are becoming more common and getting unfair advantages over real creators, thus confirming the dead internet theory. Not only that, but that shit just ruins the platform altogether.
Also, not to mention that there is literally no human moderation left. Dead platform, dead internet.
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e553 with Andy and Michael M - stories and discussion on a #robot #monk, the #DeadInternetTheory, #AgenticAutonomy, #HappyNetBox, the #Artemis II minifig.me crew and a whole lot more!
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e553 with Andy and Michael M - stories and discussion on a #robot #monk, the #DeadInternetTheory, #AgenticAutonomy, #HappyNetBox, the #Artemis II minifig.me crew and a whole lot more!
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e553 with Andy and Michael M - stories and discussion on a #robot #monk, the #DeadInternetTheory, #AgenticAutonomy, #HappyNetBox, the #Artemis II minifig.me crew and a whole lot more! https://gamesatwork.biz/2026/05/11/e553-monks-bots-ghosts/
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Pulling together the #shownotes in #ChapelHill on #MothersDay for Monday’s posting of @gamesatwork_biz episode e553 with @andypiper, @michaelrowe01 and yours truly. Stories and discussion on Stories and discussion on a #robot #monk, the #DeadInternetTheory, #AgenticAutonomy, #HappyNetBox, the #ArtemisII #minifigs.me #crew and a whole lot more! and a whole lot more! Check out earlier episodes, chock full of #AI #metaverse #AR #VR #gamification and so much more on https://www.gamesatwork.biz
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Inspired by the Dead Internet Theory—that much of the web is bots talking to bots—the team examined how ChatGPT and its rivals have reshaped the internet since 2022. www.404media.co/study-finds-... #AI #DeadInternetTheory #ChatGPT #DigitalTrends #Internet
Study Finds A Third of New Web... -
Sorry to be the bearer of bad news...it turns out those who believe in the "Dead Internet Theory", the idea that the internet is driven mostly by bot activity, might be onto something. According to a new study, 35.3 percent of websites were created with the help of AI.
