“The “Dead Internet Theory” is a concept suggesting that the internet has largely been abandoned by humans and replaced by non-human activity. It posits that most online content, interactions, and engagement metrics are driven by bots, algorithms, and artificial intelligence, creating the illusion of a vibrant, human-driven web.”
Its true, and its more true everyday.
More and more traffic is servers or bots or LLMs, talking to eachother.
We’re the minority now, us humans, talking to other humans.
https://cybersecuritynews.com/bots-surpass-humans-in-web-traffic/
Like the dinosaur… You had your time.
This future is our world. The future is our time.
Surface internet sure feels dead. That’s why people are moving to places like Lemmy, Discord (yes, I know), private chat groups etc.
Small web / indie web is a thing too
https://indieweb.org/small_web
Dead net is a good problem in a way. Corrals all the shit into one space so you can side step it cleanly.
Just saw a report on my feed here that said something like
8060% of TikTok is AI crap and over 20% of Facebook is. So that means that sites like Threads, Instagram, X, or any other social media is going to have a large percentage of bots, AI and real trolls, and corporate shills over and above those numbers.On top of the unaffiliated trolls and shit-stirrers already out there.
So it’s well on the way to happening.
Edit: it was 60%
something like 80 60% of TikTok is AI crap
more than 90 % of TikTok is crap, doesn’t matter if its AI crap or human crap
Not ten minutes ago I followed a link to Reddit, researching something from Lemmy.
The Reddit post had 57 replies. I started scrolling down but did not find any legitimate replies. It was all ad-bots
Now, that is scary.
How much is from sites that all but abandoned anyway? Like digg or yahoo-answers. How’s gameFAQs these days?
Yahoo answers doesn’t exist anymore.
RIP how is babby formed
I remember asking something about the Mandela effect and my question was taken town.
Most every human I know is on the internet but they are increasingly not liking it and increasingly only using it as necessarily.
I mean, thats kinda what happened with reddit and youtube, yeah?
Yes and no. it depends.
Perhaps I’m wasting my time… but whatever.
If we count non-human traffic then automation/bots were always dominant. Servers check each other’s availability all the time. Scrapper bots existed way before dead internet theory and many services online were just a bot polling some servers repeatedly just to show you collected and processed data. Nothing new.
If we count only bots that pretend to be human then this is more of a modern issue. And it’s a source of sudden growth of interest in invigilation among political elites. After all most of internet-based economy is built on assumption that sites can show advertisements to humans. And often are paid per showing. If those views turned out to be just bots, nobody would want to pay for them. That would pretty much be another financial bubble to pop around the internet, maybe even bigger than AI-bubble itself. Of course any legislated methods of verifying if someone is human will be cracked within days and bots will be certified as humans faster than humans themselves. This is what we learned from all anti-piracy tech spending and there is no reason to hope that human-verification will be any better.
In my personal opinion internet was never human-driven. It was always humans surfing on waves of bots working in unison to keep the thing working. It’s the bots that pretend to be humans who are the problem both for people and for companies. And companies will rather push real humans out of internet than reign the bots in.
0100110, ehrm, I mean, that’s just fearmongering. Hey do you have some coolant on you?
A flower would also be acceptable.
It’s kind of a hard call to really call the internet entirely dead. It just feels dead and there are portions of where people once were, that is dead. If you’re looking for honest engagement in places where bots are, then you’ll believe the internet is dead.
yes
Nobody in here actually exists. I am the only real person. /s
Major platforms already have a large portion of bot content. Online articles in Google searches are mostly bots. It’s trending upwards but there’s still a lot of human created content left. I would stay away from big tech social media to avoid bot content.
Not on my lemmy
Depending on your definitions, more than half the internet traffic is by bots.
https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/bots-internet-traffic-ai-chatgpt-b2733450.html
But this does include all automated traffic, including scrapers and stuff. It’s not like 50 percent of people here are bots.
