The problem I see with Dead Internet Theory is that the internet isn't self-sustaining. Humans work to tend and pay for it in return for a perceived benefit. As the percentage of fully-automated interaction rises there will be a point of diminishing returns to the real humans who pay for its continuation.
Either an equilibrium will be achieved or the internet will swiftly die. A similar mechanism is present in biology, where parasites that kill their hosts before they can find new ones will quickly perish as a species. A Dead Internet would look like an empty abandoned mall, instead of a mall full of zombie shoppers looking for living brains that never arrive.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Monday, 1 April 2024 19:06 (four weeks ago) link
I mean a dead internet will still be useful for shopping/banking/streaming, it will just not be useful for social interactions or searching for information
― silverfish, Monday, 1 April 2024 19:22 (four weeks ago) link
always amazed at how much more difficult it is to search for things anymore
― CEO Greedwagon (Neanderthal), Monday, 1 April 2024 19:48 (four weeks ago) link
my main task on the two hiking websites I help moderate is killing seo spam.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Monday, 1 April 2024 19:53 (four weeks ago) link
speaking of conspiracies...I was reminded by my brother that I was the victim of one in 5th grade. I was accused of being part of a conspiracy to cheat in the elementary school spelling bee.
Never mind the fact that I got 32/35 right on the qualifying test to get into the final round. My mother was in the audience and everybody insisted she was mouthing the letters of every word to me. Maybe she was, idk. But I wasn't looking at her. Nor could I read lips (I still am not great at it). and also, the words weren't very hard. even by elementary school standards.
but like everybody kept coming up to me for 3 months saying EVERYONE KNOWS YOU CHEATED any time they saw me or the bee came up, and saying my mom fed me the answers, and that we had pre-planned this system of cheating. eventually I told someone "well I'm sorry these words are hard to YOU, but I actually know things" and subsequently got punched in the stomach.
― CEO Greedwagon (Neanderthal), Monday, 1 April 2024 20:14 (four weeks ago) link
Woah, that’s fucked up
― Slorg is not on the Slerf Team, you idiot, you moron (Boring, Maryland), Tuesday, 2 April 2024 01:28 (four weeks ago) link
That's like Quiz Show Part II
― Josefa, Tuesday, 2 April 2024 02:38 (four weeks ago) link
― CEO Greedwagon (Neanderthal), Monday, April 1, 2024 2:48 PM (six hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
yeah it's wild I noticed last month that the top result for a lot of the stuff I was searching for was AI generated and now I've noticed it's the top 3
― frogbs, Tuesday, 2 April 2024 02:47 (four weeks ago) link
yeah it fucking sucks now! i may ask well just yell out to my mum from the other room & get as many wrong sound-alike answers
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 2 April 2024 03:25 (four weeks ago) link