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A theory: want more traffic from LLM referrals? Type the question / search intent into the prompt. Write a poorly constructed article using the exact slop that the AI produced. Reinforcing the LLM's correctness rewards you with a higher likelihood of getting a citation when it shows other people that slop.
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👻 Die Geister, die ich rief: Der KI-Musikgenerator #Suno führt ab September Downloadgrenzen für generierte Songs ein. Der Grund? Die Plattform droht im eigenen KI-Spam zu versinken.
Ein Lehrstück dafür, was passiert, wenn quantitative KI-Generierung ungebremst auf die Realität trifft.
Werden wir solche Limits bald auch bei Text- und Bild-KIs sehen? 🎧
#SunoAI #GenerativeAI #AIMusic #TechNews #Spam #DeadInternet
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🔥 The Dead Internet Report: Six Sites AI Is Switching Off
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DemocracyNow reporting on a AI generated argument between Sam Altman and Naomi Klein is where we are now.
The internet is increasingly LLM content, and because it's so much easier to generate soon it will be, or maybe already is, the majority. That will discourage actual content creators to create and readers to read, advertisers to advertise and hosters to host. This is the path to the dead internet. -
OK, StackOverflow has been basically dead walking for a while, but over the weekend they managed to break the RSS feeds for tags.
It was how I used to monitor the tags that I basically answered all the questions for, but if I can't see new questions then they are basically not going to get answered.
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There are many people today who have no clue what the internet or websites are. If it's not an app, it doesn't exist.
Google seems to have decided that this is the way forward. Every website, every question, every whim of every person... Will be an AI-generated app.
https://share.google/Xz4VElpCeAlFHIojH#Google #AI #mobileapps #deadinternet #communication #psychology
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@telegraph.co.uk you're so close
#deadinternet #msm #legacymedia #paywalls #news
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I am for sure that there was a particular rock song from the 70s about arcane knowledge but every time I search for it now I get hundreds of AI generated websites with auto-generated descriptions of songs instead of actual results for what I'm looking for.
The internet is dead.
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The Dead Internet theory.
The Internet is dead because it was murdered.
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Turns out Dead Internet Theory was right: AI agents are eating the Web, growing by nearly 8,000% and rewiring the Internet’s business model
> economic value directly attributable to deployed agents—at $36 billion a year on a run-rate basis.Thee 8,000% increase should be seen as an early stage growth, but one nonetheless
https://fortune.com/2026/07/23/dead-internet-theory-bots-agents-majority-web-traffic/
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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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@trisha_m_clay File this one under #deadinternet 😐
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I measured my own blog traffic. Bot or human? - confirmed humans: a few per cent - machines: more than half - the rest: unverifiable
If your analytics says 80% humans, it is probably wrong. #deadinternet #ai
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Willkommen im einsamen Internet: Seit Juni 2026 überholt Bot-Traffic den menschlichen Traffic (>51%). 📉
Die B2B-Dynamik:
1️⃣ Firmen fluten das Netz mit KI-Content („AI Slop“).
2️⃣ Suchmaschinen liefern direkt die Zero-Click-Zusammenfassung.Ein Kreislauf, in dem Bots mit Bots sprechen. Die Rettung für den Mittelstand? Charakter, Vertrauen und echte Substanz.
Blogbeitrag: https://pr-exclusiv.de/wenn-algorithmen-fuer-algorithmen-schreiben-willkommen-im-einsamen-internet/
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The Gray Area: The end of the human Internet: What are humans for?
Reddit and Apple Podcasts: https://www.reddit.com/r/philosophypodcasts/s/IbbUD9eQf6
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/1SC86lXKSJr61rvClEHQI6 -
Agentic AI-verkeer op internet is inmiddels groter dan verkeer van menselijke gebruikers. In Noord-Amerika bestaat zelfs 68,6 procent van het verkeer uit AI-bots.
https://www.bright.nl/nieuws/2100450/er-zitten-nu-meer-ai-agents-dan-mensen-op-het-internet.html
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"CBC uncovers 14 accounts from India, Pakistan, Indonesia posting on popular Alberta separatist groups"
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/facebook-overseas-alberta-separtism-9.7223966
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2016, la théorie de l'Internet mort.
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Th%C3%A9orie_de_l%27Internet_mort
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Y'all, this article by Owen McGrann is so good that I am struggling not to quote the entire thing like one of those weird youtubers that stands in the corner of someone else's video and points. (Such an odd ouroboros.)
His philosophical points are well grounded, exquisitely argued, and provide that pleasurable tingle of neurons firing.
His premise is that akin to what #AI #slop has done to the internet, i.e. #deadInternet theory, they are poised to do to the #economy if we don't stop them. #DeadEconomy Theory, he names it.
Quote: #Longtermism, the philosophical engine of AI acceleration, whether its proponents acknowledge it or not, is warmed-over Parfit without the rigor. The argument (that we should optimize for the welfare of trillions of hypothetical future beings, and that present-day costs are acceptable in service of that goal) is a framework any competent ethicist can dismantle in an afternoon.
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~Theme to the X-Files plays~
#deadinternettheory #deadinternet #robot #bot #bots #internet #classicalconditioning #bfskinner #twitter #screenshot #socialmedia #influencer #influencers #ghost #ghosts #spooky #weird