Why the Internet is Dead (Dead Internet Theory)

I AM NICHELESS

I come from a multilingual home so some words I say may not be pronounced with a typical American accent

Ever been an argument with someone so frustrating that you wondered if they were even real? Today we discuss The Dead Internet Theory and the two sides of it that I believe are equally interesting. ChatGPT and OpenAi are menaces to society and there's nothing we can do. Don't get me wrong I don't hate technology. Personally I do use Ai myself, mostly to enhance blurry images (see caseOh thumbnail) and I am not adverse to the technology if it's used in moderation. The problem is that the internet is not prepared for this at all and shady stuff is happening everywhere. Any references to extreme tech activists are purely done in a humorous manner and are not meant to be taken seriously.

Credit to @Deadtheory__ on twitter for the tweet examples shown in this video

[WekBenHelix]

Your video is surprisingly rational about this. It's a shame it's so hard to discuss this stuff without wild conspiracy theorists and "I'm 14 and this is deep" people blasting the convo and drowning out other things. Even despite this super rational and well-done video, a lot of these comments are utterly batshit. The internet is a fascinating phenomenon and it yields some really wild behavioral psych outcomes.
Also the Library of Alexandria burned because the curators were fans of Rainbow Six and Tom Clancy books (which made up the majority of the Library's knowledge--Clancy's lost 500 books) and they saw Ubi do the Rick & Morty cross-over. Burned it all down then and there on the spot.

[jesse_campbell]

I remember when Google would actually search for what you typed into it. Youtube, too. Now they fetch unrelated rubbish. Used to be a library; now it's Walmart.

[DerAnanasKing]

the really scary thing about the "dead internet" theory, is that its not like the cool, goverment plot conspiracy, but thats its a slow, long and mundane process that is just gonna make everything slightly worse forever.

[mjvoce]

i don't know why you would think the government gaslighting it's population is somehow a crazy take. we only have multiple centuries worth of examples of governments doing just that. people in power are prone to abusing their power in order to maintain it? totally crazy.

[cidlucien]

This reminds me of cyberpunk, where the original internet was infected with rouge A.I.s that ran rampant till they had to seal it off and create a new internet. The original net became the old net, which is still filled with valuable information, but extremely hard to access, since anyone who tries is immediately attacked by rouge A.I.s. I know it sounds corny but it's weird seeing something so similar happen if real life.

[myface]

the loss of information right now is a big problem. Most things i search for end up getting me nothing.

[robotfaceO]

I mean its conformed that the government does participate in social engineering. To what extent is still unclear

[yernoi]

“In the future all humor will be randomly generated”

-Protestant vegetables

[Aurkiel]

So I remember reading a post about the dead internet theory on /x/ years back, and one thing that always stuck with me and creeps me out is the idea of content cycles.

Essentially, stories, ideas, posts, and other content being recycled periodically, from different sources as time goes on. Same content, different provider.

People who’ve been on the web a long time are the ones who best pick up on such things, just because of the amount of content exposure they have. Granted, these cycles were long, sometimes taking years before you see a repost… but I’ve been noticing it getting faster.

On Twitter, Facebook, Reddit, etc. sometimes you’ll find yourself seeing the same post recycled a multitude of times, sometimes within the span of a day or so. And who is the culprit? Bots. Be it for karma farming or, or attracting followers, or simply to get that paycheck for interactions… it’s become so much more blatant and prevalent than ever before.

Even the whole Dead Internet Theory itself. Having read it years ago, only to see it crop up once more in recent years… it’s got me creeped out for sure.

Great video btw 👍

[Pancakelover]

Chatgpt sora shows just because you can doesn't mean you should

[bernardoohigginsvevo]

The thing about the Library of Alexandria was that most of the texts it had were copies of ones that existed elsewhere, so we didn't actually lose as much knowledge as many commonly believe

[barrybobert]

Shit, I'm gonna have to start going outside soon.

[shoulung]

for the record, there is literally no way Christians burned down the library of Alexandria. It happened in 48 BC... 48 years before the birth of Christ. there were no Christians around back then.

[farcyinsanitymeme]

TF2 was a speedrun of the dead internet theory, amazing until around 2016-17, slightly worse for a few years, then completely unusable. Thanks, Sam Altman

[robertk]

to quote veggie tales "in the future, humor will be randomly generated"

[odiug]

It reminds me of something that happened in my country. A famous influencer had a habit of denouncing corruption in local governments (their actual content had nothing to do with politics, they just shared in their ig stories complaints their followers had to "make good use of their platform".
One day, out of nowhere, thousands of tweets suddenly appeared branding them a pedophile, the proof being screencaps of 15 year old tweets. And the "suddenly" part was pretty terrifying: 6.59 am, no tweets, 7.00 am, thousands of different accounts accusing them. Even traditional media, who rarely covers influencers, were suspiciously all about it. They were banished from the industry entirely in one day.
Moral of the story, don't mess with corrupt politicians lol.

[bluesrocker]

This is the kind of thing that keeps me awake at night. I can just see a day coming soon when A.I starts to invade our private messages or even starts phoning us, mimicking our friends and family like in the Terminator. At that point it has the power to completely ruin your life. Destroy relationships, get you fired, even get you arrested. It's stuff like that that makes me want to unplug completely.

[gregmcmanus]

so basically irl bots are using their free time to flood cyberspace with regular bots? i guess it's time to touch grass then

[jamesrustle]

The part that scares me is just how much more annoying captchas are going to become

[Gust]

23:31 I'm one of the people who run that account! I still find it so surreal when people talk about us. This video was honestly great, specially with dividing it into 2 different parts.