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PeaceWave

(3,689 posts) Tue Aug 5, 2025, 03:12 PM Aug 2025

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Inauthentic bot traffic is already a such a serious problem that it has a name, the dead internet theory. Eugene Aug 2025 #1

Welcome to the goatf**king of the internet WestMichRad Aug 2025 #2

Eugene

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1. Inauthentic bot traffic is already a such a serious problem that it has a name, the dead internet theory.

Reply to PeaceWave (Original post)

Tue Aug 5, 2025, 03:23 PM

Aug 2025

The theory asserts that a growing part of internet interaction is driven by bots posing as people. Bots interacting with bots. AI bots training on AI-generated slop.

Even if the researchers had good intentions, this kind of disruption to highlight the problem is unethical at best.

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WestMichRad

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2. Welcome to the goatf**king of the internet

Reply to PeaceWave (Original post)

Tue Aug 5, 2025, 03:41 PM

Aug 2025

Such a wonderful future in store for us all… can’t trust anyone or anything.

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