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Dead Internet Theory: A.I. Killed the Internet
Generative A.I is the nuclear bomb of the Information Age. If the Internet doesn’t feel as creative or fun or interesting as you remember it, you’re not alone. The so-called ‘Dead Internet Theory’ explains why. The rise of artificially generated content killed the internet. How did this happen? Why? And… Is it still possible to stop it?
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I disagree with this. There is plenty to see and do if you migrate away from Facebook,etc. Just because a microscopic group of people say the internet is dead,does not make it so. If it was dead,no one could go ol.
I understand your point and agree with it, but outside the known cancers of the internet (Facebook et al) there's a lot of content generated by AI: news articles, blog posts, imagery, video and audio. On one hand it is remarkable that it is possible to generate all that with AI, on the other hand, it takes away the human factor from the equation and thus makes it the internet also dead, in a way. A machine is not alive, how well it tries to imitate life and humanity.
Of course the internet will not die, humans are far too creative to find solutions to problems like this. Thing is, you'll get, again, a splitting of content. The first one was the divide between broadband (exclusive) content, with loads of video and audio and really complex programming and coding, and the "slow" internet. That happened when cable, DSL and fibre got introduced, they were/are far more expensive than slowband internet.
The divide what is happening now is between the AI generated content and the human/hand made content. For example, it is easy to recognise an article written in AI, read: LLM's, that have a superficial character to the texts generated. The quality of a good article, photo, video, audio is characterized by the human flaws or unexpected twists and turns that humanity describes or characterises.
Let's just hope (and expect) that people keep on putting out their things on their own and enjoy the making of said content by themselves. Humans are notoriously lazy but also creative. Maybe that is the real divide?