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Right before July 4th, 2021 there were memes of John Cena singing about "Bing chilling". That was when the Internet finally died. Now we fight off rabid yokels, just to keep the power on. Whatever product you are selling, from whatever nation you hail may you always be placed unto check unless a worse fate befall us.
Nothing's more peachy keen then trying to explain a technical issue to a bot. And they are so damn polite, unhelpful and repetitive... it's like talking to a Canadian lol btw... Canuck here :)
Give ALL TIME Channel its props...!!!! You know as well as I do, they were the one that used Potemkin village as a comparison. Bro that channel was one of THE FIRST to mention it.... so you not including where you came up with that Potemkin village comparison is very disingenuous. So give that man his props! ua-cam.com/video/V9PkWdrYOz0/v-deo.html
There are so many ai generated videos and websites for esoteric, mystic, occult, and spiritual practices all literally copied from one another verbatim. Its as if someone spawned some a.i. content and someone else used a.i. to copy their a.i., and so on and so on and so forth.
When you would google something you would basically get an infinite number of websites, now you just get the same 3 websites endlessly, Internet been “dead” for a long time now
I think that's more of a case of viral sensation. She is legitimately #3 and she capitalized on that with the coin. But the virality made her 3rd. The best/worst part is she had a huge cryptocurrency guest Mark Cuban on around that time.
Some time ago, I watched a video that top results got worse and adverts take more space. Not sure if it was here or a similar channel. Edit: Mrwhostheboss Why Google Search is falling apart.
@@Mac_Omegaly It's easy to manipulate people into believing the internet is this massive place when you know people won't search past the first page of results.
It's like Google forgot how to Google. I first noticed how bad it got when googling sandy hook a few years back. It lacked so many websites that existed before that point. Now it's like none existent searches. Or repeated recent websites and no old ones.
What I find most concerning is that the simplest way to get a straight answer out of Google is often the AI responses. I have no doubts this was intentional as well. I'm not saying those answers are good, I'm saying if you're just a lazy average user trying to use Google as an Answer Machine, then you will gravitate towards just reading the AI response and not questioning further... because that's often the first and most straight-forward response given.
@@urphakeandgey6308I don't think Google is actively pushing worse results to promote their AI (except maybe sponsored products). I think their search engine got f-ed the moment people figured out how to trick it to increase views on their own sites for ad revenue. Then long ahh articles and tags vomit were born. At this point only AI can navigate through all that slop content to try and give you a quick answer, either that or Reddit. I don't know how Google search engine can get itself out of this mess tbh.
I absolutely despise AI generated UA-cam channels, for a variety of reasons. I wish UA-cam implemented Community Notes just like Twitter does. These channels shouldn't monetize spreading false information.
Its sad when I see voiceovers on a real channel because some people lack the gear or have self consciousness problems with their voice. But I hate 99% of AI voiceovers
LOL - X is one of the worst false information spreaders so I don’t know if the community notes really help; especially, in a world where the notes can be written by AI
@@kaddieAcommunity notes on x is actually helpful maybe 10% of the time and i feel thats generous. it's actually filled with what youd expect - endless hasbara accounts from tel aviv. for example my account status for being able to contribute to notes is been in limbo for months bc im constantly labeling things unhelpful that nevertheless get approved because its the zionarrative above all. not to mention it literally all relies on unpaid labor
As a network administrator, the biggest issue with this hollow search engine problem is how a lack of troubleshooting and knowledge material is hard to get hold of on the fly. This is going to cause MASSIVE problems and cascading technical failure that will make the fears of Y2K look lie kindergarten recess. There is equipment, at my job, that is older than me. It is still running. It is critical. I do not know how to use it. Not because I'm incompetent, but because the equipment is no longer produced, and the knowledge for it is not readily available, being only in outdated physical books that are hard to acquire. Further, because the equipment is outdated, there is very little, if any, good information on management of this equipment online. I ask any IT people here - how many times have you had to fix a problem in a short space of time while at work, and the only thing you can do is google? Now, how many times are 90% of your search results a reddit thread of a guy asking the same question, with variable, unreliable results? Yeah, see the problem we're gonna run into? There's gonna be a massive knowledge death because search engines don't actually direct you to the things you really need.
Even worse is seeing those reddit and forum thread that DO pop up, in which someone claims to know the answer to the issue... But then sends the solution via DM. Or OP just "NM figured it out"-s everyone. No explanation elaborated on.
There are specialized sites that are just manuals and are hidden treasure troves. Like I found a website that was just every waffle maker manual you could think of in pdf form. But they are difficult to even find as you need to know exactly what to search to get it as a result.
Even when I'm searching for some AWS stuff. The documentation is laughably bad and the search results go to some stack overflow thread that has nothing to do with what I'm searching. The solutions usually come from a spark of "genius" from myself after hours of terrible research. And people recommend me to use some gpt bs that gives some surface level answer. I miss old forums.
I’ve seen interactions that really seemed like bots talking to other bots Edit: I also find it ironic that there are comments literally seconds after you upload a video, saying that the things in the video are fantastic….so bots?
Yep. Nothing specific in the comment, just generic praise, with attractive female image. I guess they hope you will click on the profile and visit their links or whatever.
@@mgratkThat these accounts keep being made and keep posting means it's working on enough people to make it worth it...which is crazy to think about, since the amount of people falling for this stuff should be lowering every year 💀
Yes the banter posts, I only ever saw those on pop psych forums. They all came from a data collection shell company that paid to collect data from Reddit. There was a website full of every survey imaginable and it was made to look amateurish and untrackable. I thought they were hackers who stole moderator privileges. At the time they reminded me of the romanian catfishers stalking dating sites who used Ai before it was mainstream and often fuzzed, watermarked, scrubbed exif data their pics. After the Twitter files released I would say they are probably state defectors in league with foreign nations. There was a trigger word or signature they had something about "smalltalk".
Which is worse, zombie slopification of the interwebs, or corporate enshitification of the interwebs? (NB: I mostly wrote this subcomment to add slopification to my spell check dictionary)
They didn't make a new one, the old net was broken and fractured, NetWatch created the blackwall AI with the help of a few rogue AIs that wanted to be segregated away from humanity's observation for whatever nefarious purpose. The new net is the old net, but the old net was destroyed, and netwatch could only save pieces of it, with the help of same AIs that wanted to harm humanity. What i haven't been able to figure out is _why_ bartmoss destroyed the old net.
It's Dead Internet, because there are no people. Bots aren't living, so they can't be undead either. Both "undead" and "zombie" makes, absolutely, 0 sense at all.
@@MartyrPandaGaming You're missing the point. The Internet was living with the interactions of humans like the neuron signals in a brain. Now it's the architecture creating and doing things without the human element. Like a brain with no neuron activity in a zombie that continues to lumber on.
For me, part of dead internet theory is that you can only navigate a few pages and some of the pages are repeats from previous pages. You used to be able to put in a search term and find crazy & not crazy rabbit holes. Not anymore. You can't navigate away from the slop anymore to find something that you know is there because you saw it a few years ago. I think that might be part of why people think that the government is involved because many things show the government saying or doing something that now looks bad
If I don't restrict searches to specific dates I literally cannot find certain things. Like I need a specific type of product and I won't get a SINGLE result of use if I don't restrict it to like the last year. Because so many results are 10+ years old.
There's been obfuscation going on with naming conventions for a long time as well, like different things or concepts with the same name. The new thing might be an objectively terrible movie with a specific name, and despite it being terrible, you can't find the topic you want anymore because the new thing virtually painted over the old. I had examples like a decade ago, but I forgot them. For some reason I'm thinking one was a Marvel movie, but can't recall what i was trying to find that would fit that so I'm probably wrong.I tried to bring it up back then, but I never found anyone interested in the topic. I've missed the rabbit hole journeys for quite a few years now. The new internet feels almost useless in comparison. That's not to say you can't find useful stuff, but to try to get more deeply informed about something is a lot more work these days. All the surface stuff is incredibly superficial.
@@domehammer i wanted to find a animated series and also 3 videos i saw when i was younger it took me 7 hours of meticulously sorting searching and rediting the search parameters to find what i was looking for and i only found 1 of those 4.
I miss the Free Internet era, which was just a decade ago before copyrights and censorship 😢 You just search for a thing and there are blog posts, discuss forums or small personal made websites to access that information for free. Then came giant corporations and destroyed/monatized everything. Now every site is about subscriptions and token or credit buying schemes 😢
And it is subscription fee this and license that. Gone are the days of searching for something without sing-up's and registrations, just to get some info.
@ ahh sign ups. They are everywhere now, even on free apps and free games. Every Tech company is about pulling maximum data about public. The company that holds most of the data about people, gets power to manipulate many things.
Blaming only giant corporations is a bit hypocritical isn't it? Small actors are just as greedy. Every youtuber now begs for money, every blogger begs for money. How is this not considered monetization? Nobody's preventing them from sharing their passion pro bono like it supposedly used to be.
@dazelandpointcom4170 UA-cam and similar platforms are still free, and you can watch all content for free. Sure, there's an option to pay for extra content, which was created by the platform itself. But it's not required to pay to watch UA-cam or any creator on here.
I find it so unsettling those comments on videos like: "This is amazing, thank you for sharing". It's so obvious not a person but it's trying to communicate as one, gives me chills.
If only there was a quick way to determine AI slop on UA-cam like...oh I don't know, a visible dislike bar? Yes, I know that won't solve the entire problem and that the bots can probably manipulate it, but at least it would be something.
Not reliable. You could bot up thousands of accounts that will auto-like videos in certain intervals. Real humans will go lemming just by seeing 2047 likes / 7 dislikes and smash a like too.
Or take down the entire system, starting with alphabet. Blackrock. Just everything. We need competition and creativity to make a comeback. So depressing.
"Dead internet" is only a sign of the more dangerous phenomenon of "Dead Capitalism". Profit from imaginary speculation not based in real world solutions, products, or services.
Most of these people actually don’t seem to know all that much English when I look trough them. Mister beast is like the monopolyman. The mascot of all things capitalist America (most of them are ignorant of the drama as well)
The biggest channels are the easiest targets but every news channel has them too....as if there's some grift that they would take advantage of...but what are they after? Info collection?
I know right? I just hate whenever I see people complaining about google specially, like you something else??? Why are they putting themselves in a corner and then crying about it, there are tons of other browsers and search engines out there. They really do be acting like your parents when you buy them a smartphone and only use the default settings.
You mean 2007. Wifi and smart devices allowing non-hobbyists easy access was the beginning of the end. If you refuse to wire up a desktop you shouldn't be allowed online.
@@TessaBainCNM You're going to guilt me into finally drilling that hole through my closet wall and finally running the ethernet cable that has been hanging there for 5 years.
I think whats just as frightening is how much actual people talk like memes online. Its like they have no original thoughts, and their entire sense of humor is just repeating shitty "meme culture"
Id be more concerned about irl interactions. The Internet is its own culture and people are often here to relax, not to write the next best-selling novel. Ironically complaints about a lack of originality are also not creative or original. It’s almost like originality isn’t a very sustainable metric to begin with and has been the reason people create disturbing content for the sake of it….or something.
I've noticed this in basically every comments section on most social media too. If you type more than 2 full length sentences without meme phrases, it's "I ain't readin' allat" and "bro the king of yapping." No one has original thoughts, no one wants to read original thoughts, and basically anything that isn't a meme response will be criticized because "y bro taking it so seriously?" or "bro thought he cooked." It's fine to joke and meme on the internet, but it's like most social media is nothing but memes and brain rot. And every comeback is the same.
@@urphakeandgey6308 The lack of sincerity is a massive problem. Apathy is at a high level. Frankly, I'm not going to engage people who talk that way, and I wouldn't be surprised if some of them are bots who wish to suppress comments that express deep and genuine thoughts. Some people think we think too much.
Reminds me of cyberpunk, where the “old internet” got overtaken by AI and got unusable (and dangerous). Then net watch established a “firewall” around the useable internet.
I literally stopped using Facebook because it became less about my friends and family and more about sponsored advertisements and random ass groups that I'm not apart of.
Lmao, I deleted my account not long after the NY Times and other major publications informed us that the Face was performing psychological experiments on its users.
Facebook is the embodiment of dead internet. Here in Canada, since August 2023 news are no longer available on Facebook so my wall is like 20% friends, 80% sponsored and suggested content. It's literally useless.
I think that the real symptom of a "dead internet" is how _performative_ most conversations have become, due to censorship and the strong pressure to conform and appear "virtuous". The vast majority of discussions these days feel disingenuous and strangely corporate, like our entire lives are now a quasi-workplace with HR constantly looking over your shoulder. As such, there's really no sense of novelty or fresh ideas to be found anywhere, because _feelings_ of safety are now the priority in any interaction online. Not that people are objectively safe or not while sitting in their own home looking at a screen, mind you, just that they "feel" safe, which of course has no defined measure and is ripe for abuse.
I can’t say what I want to, even if I’m not serious. Furthermore, much of what I say disappears shortly after I hit reply. It's not the words per se, but the ideas that end up in the void. Sometimes the words will stand, however, when they are arranged to express certain thoughts, or opinions, they trigger the censors. I remember when this place wasn't so lonely.
I still try to find jobs where you meet face to face for interviews, and I still like paper apps, more than doing it online. It just seems safer that way, concerning my personal information privacy, at least. And besides, I personally think you can make a better first impression in person.
@lucasblair2490 agreed. But for people like me in the tech field like software engineers, it's all online pretty much. I thank God everyday for the job I have now. But it's difficult. No doubt.
@@J.B.1982 Greed is also a nonsensical villain, in an age when corporations are constantly shooting their own profits in the foot for the purpose of pushing agenda. You'd have to be blind to not see that there is something bigger and badder than "greed" out there.
@@VegetoStevieD They are literally talking about it. There's no speculation. Fink, Gates, Soros, they all talk about ideas well beyond greed. All authoritarians have ideology. Greed only motivates a person so much. Thinking you are going to change the world in your favor and gain massive power is a bigger motivator for these sickos.
This will lead to an adpocalypse in ALL online advertising, I can see it happening. When advertisers realise a lot of the engagement with the content they sponsor is bot-driven, why would they bother paying for it?
good, if advertising was to die totally it wouldn't be missed. which solves the problem with slop content as it wouldn't be worth doing due to no ad money. quite frank advertising should just be outright banned it is nothing but malware.
@@grimgrahamch.4157 rely on donations or wither away. a vid share site like YT could just charge an upload fee like $1 per video or something. But in all honestly if all the (anti)social media sites just died nothing of value would be lost honestly. and would be a good thing cause others like me might actually get traffic to our sites cause the whole concept people have of "FB is the internet" would be gone. Also with no ads the spammy slop content would also be gone so search engines results would end up with sites like mine at close to the top instead of page 43 behind 41 pages of ai slop. plus with big tech dead censorship would also be dead.
Unfortunately, advertisements will always exist in *some* capacity. It's existed before computers - on billboards, in shop windows, in newspapers. Somebody will always pay somebody else to tell people about their product. Its not even necessarily a *bad* thing, in its most basal form. If people are going to buy your thing they have to know about it. But advertisers should NOT have the fingerprints and personal data and profiles on individual people. That's a good hard line. Advertising should probably exist, mostly because banning it is infeasible and probably a violation of the rights of those who own the webpage or newspaper, but not in a way that damages the privacy of individuals. A human person's rights SHOULD be considered more important than a corporation's.
They already know this, and they already pay for it, gladly. The entire modern Internet model is engagement based. They are paying for both the advertising and the bot engagement to boost their products and profiles.
I know a guy who bought this whole song and dance hook line and sinker. Except he's so stupid he thought the 100$ was 1000$ and *still* thought that was cheaper than all other phones on the market.
Yeah, even a decade ago there were a TON of potentially useful sites after that point. Now a HUGE number are just more links to what you've already bypassed.
@@evaone4286It's really hard when nearly all of their competitors are dead, and many of the survivors are still Google under the hood. I remember when there were a BUNCH of specialized search engines, and depending on what you were looking for, some were more suited than others. It sucks that so many things are so hard to find now. Every now and then I find some random person's website at some weird address (usually a .edu, frankly) and it's like the old days of the internet for a moment. Just a geek out there, putting forth their own version of wisdom, to other geeks. I miss it more than I realized.
The other day I googled a comedy group from the early 2000s and it gave me a fan website that was still being updated. I was delighted for a brief moment until I looked at the site. It was 100% AI images, writing so vague that it could be about anyone, and constant references to a "porn star" who clearly made or payed for the website. It just felt so deeply disrespectful.
Anyone that still has facebook can tell you that it is completely overrun by AI generated posts with nothing but bots having conversations with each other. We are literally becoming a self-fulfilling prophecy for AI taking over the world lol
I really want a dedicated video called 'Spot the Bot' where it's gone into with depth. I see people using that word everywhere now, and usually its because they disagree with another's opinion. But i would really like to see just how clever and sophisticated these bots and their networks have gotten and what it looks like in practice
At this point, I basically just assume any kind of rage bait is probably a bot. On social media platforms like Instagram, I swear there is always someone starting an argument over literally nothing. It could be a cat video and you'll have multiple comments hating on cats to a psychopathic level. Maybe some cultures are just very anti-cat, but a lot of it seems like rage bait.
Been thinking the same thing. I'm already craving real content harder than ever. We're already so fed up of fake nonsense in all areas of internet and life that authenticity (or what we believe to be so 😅) is very refreshing.
As someone who works in the anonymous imageboard space, I'm actually quite worried about the dead internet theory and I believe that it's not a theory at all but an active risk towards online communication. I think you'll see this start up on 4chan first because that's the most popular imageboard, but don't be surprised if bots somehow are able to make fully formed online conversations. I believe marketing companies in particular will use this to push products to the highest bidder in hopes of making a product more popular. For example: EA pays a bot farm 50 million dollars, said bot farm then uses only a million to have bots actively saying "the game is good, you should buy it" while reddit comments calling out the bad behavior are actively down voted and users are banned from these communities since reddit is a known corporate hivemind and the mods there are known to be paid off. Mind you this isn't JUST reddit that's potentially affected but also websites like Discord, 4chan, Twitter, 8chan, UA-cam, etc. basically anywhere you can post a comment and leave some sort of feedback without having to require legitimately made footage. At some point we're going to need some sort of law preventing companies from using these bad faith marketing tactics, but by the time we all come together it'll probably be too late. I believe bot farms are the single biggest threat to the internet and online communication and we don't talk about it nearly enough.
@@EmoDKTsuchiya the tech can be beaten by your wet ware. all wars are frequency wars and all your thoughts and emotions correspond to said frequencies. dont embody those frequencies, use wet ware to maintain your desired frequency and the tech cant affect you. its a war a spiritual war. dont give up so easily. its what they want. you depressed literally and figuratively.
A large % of new YT channels are AI generated with AI accounts commenting on them and replied to many times by other AI channels. A + is that many people might switch from YT if a competitor can create a site that's nearly 100% Human generated content, most people do still want to interact with other Humans, it's part of what makes us Human .
There are so many channels on youtube that are creating documentary style vids on all sorts of topics (true crime, comedian biographies etc) and I swear they are voiced by a.i and totally created by a.i. The channels were all created within a year and the voiceovers sound like a real person, however if you pay close attention you'll notice little grammatical or pronunciation slip ups that a real person wouldn't make with such frequency. It's getting so hard to tell what's created by a human and what's not anymore and it's only going to improve. Crazy time to be alive
I have to keep clicking "Don't recommend channel" because UA-cam keeps putting them on my home page, it's annoying but we all knew this was gonna happen eventually once voice LLMs got really good.
If someone thinks a word is pronounced in a way that it's not, then they will constantly pronounce it in a way that it's not. What human wouldn't make such mistakes with such frequency if they make it once?
lol! gjve you a hint all monetization means that the video gets a percent of the ad revenue. when demonitized all ad revenue goes to the tube. hence the tube has no motive to stop the fraud either from the tube or from the scam ad companies.
So if the bot network is the dead internet (or dead part of it), this is like the world of the living being directly influenced by the underworld. This is so creepy conceptionally.
@EmoDKTsuchiya Ikr? One possible interpretation of demons btw is that they're all the unfinished and unresolved things/sins that were once attached to people but are now floating around, trying to influence living people they are not naturally part of, so they can take them with them. And I'd imagine the way they project pictures into people's heads would be and look similar like AI, a subject-less reconstruction from the top down, without actual understanding or thought, but just human feedback giving them clues.
Interestingly enough YT doesn't provide a way to do that, even if you report an AI comment you cannot select anything resembling "Bot comment" you just have to report it as spam which then negates reporting it because it isn't technically spam. Kind of like reporting those ads that are promoting sexual content in games, you know, the ones with the secretary undressing, and yet the ads still get shown because YT makes money off it which is the same reason they don't remove obvious bot accounts.
I’d be willing to bet that at LEAST 75% to 80% of Reddit is simply bots talking to other bots, it would explain the mindless circle jerking and hivemind that tends to dominate the site, hence the absurd traffic numbers.
With the rise of Bots & A.I, yeah, it's only going to be worse. This is the worst timeline of a cyberpunk dystopia without the cool implants & trenchcoats.
"Public knowledge lags behind black tech by 2-3 decades." Think about the exponential tech advancements of the last 2 decades. "They" had all this in the 90s.
@@SuperFranzs Do you really not know? Methinks you do, human. But your programmed defense mechanism is to lose me in specifics. I am a mad man. Dismiss my claims. Trust your government.
@@SuperFranzs They are above the bankers, they call themselves illuminated which they are not, after all, they're satanists. it's a huge worldwide network of people willing to do evil with very advanced level of psychology.
@GeneralChangFromDanang Comments like that are how you know they are real. AI also can't comprehend the ligma, that's another way to find the real ones. The only problem is ligma enjoyers are already dead inside, my brain is at least 30% rotted out as you can clearly see.
No disrespect meant, for future reference the actual word you're looking for is "façade", and it's socially acceptable to spell it without the accent on the C.
- News about the Tesla Phone is posted and appears in search engines thanks to SEO. - AI crawls news sites and reposts them to their own news websites with hallucination changes to the content. - At the same time, AI for UA-cam videos crawls the synthetic data. - AI crawling news continues to crawl search engines and finds synthetic data misinformation about the Tesla Phone. - The cycle continues from AI crawler news to AI crawler for UA-cam videos.
You know what else is true? They use the internet too. What, you think feds don't watch UA-cam videos after a long day at work? That they have their own private internet with their own secret UA-cam full of secret content creators? And that this secret UA-cam isn't also dealing with generated slop content? Grow a brain.
I have already started to report the AI advertisements. This stuff freaks me out and I wish we would resolve our current issues before moving onto something so magnificent.
I see so many defense articles that are so clearly AI written. "SU-27 summed up in 2 words" then the next day "F-18 summed up in 2 words". And every day its another piece of equipment. All written with the same pattern.
Usually I comment on comment sections. It's just something I like to do to get my thoughts off my chest. But I remember when back in the day there used to be far much more responses to my comments. Even in chat rooms there's hardly a response anymore.
I think bots or spammers existed long where UA-cam has founded as comments on the most viral video would be filled with Bible thumpers, Chain letters, spam bots riddled everywhere but now it's gone worst with stolen PFP of models because guys might thought of agreeing with it.
Thanks for helping solve a mystery that's been bugging me - some members of my family won't shut up about how great the Tesla phone is going to be, especially how it will allow people to live off-grid and away from government control. I couldn't figure out where they were getting any of this info, but I'm not in the target demographic for this content. I doubt I can convince them it's AI though :(
So we need an Ublock update that will filter out AI content. Especially annoying are these non-existing rock bands from 80s - manually blocking them on YT would require a heavy duty mouse buttons.
Whenever I hear a UA-camr say “I’m not sponsored by them I just like them/use them It is the only form of advertising left that actually makes me take a second look at said product which is crazy to think about
It's not a conspiracy, it's just a natural consequence of human greed. Everything popular eventually gets ruined by spammers, scammers and other opportunists. Chatbots are just speeding it all up.
This is exactly what is happening with DEI so called "modern audience". One group made bots to spread propaganda(political figures) , and then the other group (Movie industry, Game industry) seeing the amount of accounts supporting the idea decided to make games for them... But bots don't buy anything.
That is something I hadn't considered, and it's probably 100% accurate. I don't game much anymore, but that sickness has infected comics and Magic: the Gathering, and I'm just like...who are you talking to? Who is this audience? They don't exist. Probably because they're bots.
not a musk fan per say but looking how twa-tter (yes sad have to fluck up words to bypass cen-sors) turned out after he got it, it went from a strong L-wing echochamber to more centrist/r-lean. cause the bots got purged.
Bots are really dictating the culture now 🤦🏼♀️ I hope all companies stop listening to fans online and only talk to them face to face if they want to know how they feel about something.
Imagine Alt crossing the Blackwall as a newly born, human engram based AI and all she finds are shitty webpages full of a mix of somewhat accurate and totally inaccurate information, chatGPT clones, and 12 fingered furry "art"
hey the United States has not deployed the Army to take over Central America because of the drug problem yet so we're still not in the cyberpunk dystopia yet
its extremely visible on twitter and youtube all you need to do is open a freshly upload video and monitor the comment section for some time then check accounts of the most repetitive comments its almost always a couple month old account, completley blank inside after you open it, very common thing
Top 2-3 comments on Leddit and top 2-3 replies to the top posts feel like a script usually. A bad joke, a bad joke response, white men bad, identity politics insert. It's always the same.
Part of this has a lot to do with the fact that superlative language (e.g. "forever," "destroys," and language like that) is part of search algorithms because viewers/commenters (real and otherwise) are drawn to such language. People need to pull their collective head out of their backside and use what little critical thinking they have in order to weaken such algorithms.
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Right before July 4th, 2021 there were memes of John Cena singing about "Bing chilling". That was when the Internet finally died. Now we fight off rabid yokels, just to keep the power on. Whatever product you are selling, from whatever nation you hail may you always be placed unto check unless a worse fate befall us.
Nothing's more peachy keen then trying to explain a technical issue to a bot. And they are so damn polite, unhelpful and repetitive... it's like talking to a Canadian lol
btw... Canuck here :)
Give ALL TIME Channel its props...!!!!
You know as well as I do, they were the one that used Potemkin village as a comparison.
Bro that channel was one of THE FIRST to mention it.... so you not including where you came up with that Potemkin village comparison is very disingenuous.
So give that man his props!
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There are so many ai generated videos and websites for esoteric, mystic, occult, and spiritual practices all literally copied from one another verbatim. Its as if someone spawned some a.i. content and someone else used a.i. to copy their a.i., and so on and so on and so forth.
The internet started dying the minute searching a result stopped giving you answers. Now I get ads and irrelevent material.
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@@OfficialAbjeernope
When you would google something you would basically get an infinite number of websites, now you just get the same 3 websites endlessly, Internet been “dead” for a long time now
@@marshallbeck9101exclude porn and 90% of people spend 90% of time on 20 biggest platforms and websites.
Age of exploring, blogs and forums is dead
Hawk Tuah Podcast being number 3 in the world is all the proof I need of dead internet.
Don't get me started on the shitcoin.
Been fake since the gov funded of their liking
Dead Internet vs Braindead internet.
or Banana game being constantly #3 on steam charts
I think that's more of a case of viral sensation. She is legitimately #3 and she capitalized on that with the coin. But the virality made her 3rd. The best/worst part is she had a huge cryptocurrency guest Mark Cuban on around that time.
google isn’t the same anymore. feels like it’s been censored the past 8 years and been getting worse
Some time ago, I watched a video that top results got worse and adverts take more space. Not sure if it was here or a similar channel.
Edit: Mrwhostheboss Why Google Search is falling apart.
It doesn't feel like it, it actually has been censored for the last 8+ years.
2016 seems like a lifetime ago
The other deception is repeating results on pages 4+
There's not 10,000 matches to your search, it's closer to 78.
@@Mac_Omegaly It's easy to manipulate people into believing the internet is this massive place when you know people won't search past the first page of results.
I legitimately cannot get a straight answer for a question I google anymore, it's actually absurd...
It's like Google forgot how to Google. I first noticed how bad it got when googling sandy hook a few years back. It lacked so many websites that existed before that point. Now it's like none existent searches. Or repeated recent websites and no old ones.
What I find most concerning is that the simplest way to get a straight answer out of Google is often the AI responses. I have no doubts this was intentional as well. I'm not saying those answers are good, I'm saying if you're just a lazy average user trying to use Google as an Answer Machine, then you will gravitate towards just reading the AI response and not questioning further... because that's often the first and most straight-forward response given.
Try perplexity. Haven't touched Google since I started using it
@@urphakeandgey6308I don't think Google is actively pushing worse results to promote their AI (except maybe sponsored products).
I think their search engine got f-ed the moment people figured out how to trick it to increase views on their own sites for ad revenue.
Then long ahh articles and tags vomit were born.
At this point only AI can navigate through all that slop content to try and give you a quick answer, either that or Reddit.
I don't know how Google search engine can get itself out of this mess tbh.
Y'all are still using Google search? Lol
I absolutely despise AI generated UA-cam channels, for a variety of reasons. I wish UA-cam implemented Community Notes just like Twitter does. These channels shouldn't monetize spreading false information.
Me too!!! Those philosophy channels that are clearly an AI voice regurgitating basic information.
Its sad when I see voiceovers on a real channel because some people lack the gear or have self consciousness problems with their voice. But I hate 99% of AI voiceovers
LOL - X is one of the worst false information spreaders so I don’t know if the community notes really help; especially, in a world where the notes can be written by AI
I think it's an eye-opener, AI made a mistake in it's "flawlessness" by showing us what it really is.
@@kaddieAcommunity notes on x is actually helpful maybe 10% of the time and i feel thats generous. it's actually filled with what youd expect - endless hasbara accounts from tel aviv. for example my account status for being able to contribute to notes is been in limbo for months bc im constantly labeling things unhelpful that nevertheless get approved because its the zionarrative above all. not to mention it literally all relies on unpaid labor
As a network administrator, the biggest issue with this hollow search engine problem is how a lack of troubleshooting and knowledge material is hard to get hold of on the fly.
This is going to cause MASSIVE problems and cascading technical failure that will make the fears of Y2K look lie kindergarten recess.
There is equipment, at my job, that is older than me. It is still running. It is critical. I do not know how to use it. Not because I'm incompetent, but because the equipment is no longer produced, and the knowledge for it is not readily available, being only in outdated physical books that are hard to acquire. Further, because the equipment is outdated, there is very little, if any, good information on management of this equipment online.
I ask any IT people here - how many times have you had to fix a problem in a short space of time while at work, and the only thing you can do is google?
Now, how many times are 90% of your search results a reddit thread of a guy asking the same question, with variable, unreliable results?
Yeah, see the problem we're gonna run into? There's gonna be a massive knowledge death because search engines don't actually direct you to the things you really need.
Reminds me of the meme about the global economy being held up by a windows 95 era excel sheet.
Even worse is seeing those reddit and forum thread that DO pop up, in which someone claims to know the answer to the issue...
But then sends the solution via DM. Or OP just "NM figured it out"-s everyone. No explanation elaborated on.
Yep
There are specialized sites that are just manuals and are hidden treasure troves. Like I found a website that was just every waffle maker manual you could think of in pdf form. But they are difficult to even find as you need to know exactly what to search to get it as a result.
Even when I'm searching for some AWS stuff. The documentation is laughably bad and the search results go to some stack overflow thread that has nothing to do with what I'm searching. The solutions usually come from a spark of "genius" from myself after hours of terrible research.
And people recommend me to use some gpt bs that gives some surface level answer. I miss old forums.
I’ve seen interactions that really seemed like bots talking to other bots
Edit: I also find it ironic that there are comments literally seconds after you upload a video, saying that the things in the video are fantastic….so bots?
You're describing my average experience on Reddit... Between bots and brains on autopilot I go there less and less these days.
Yep. Nothing specific in the comment, just generic praise, with attractive female image. I guess they hope you will click on the profile and visit their links or whatever.
@@mgratkThat these accounts keep being made and keep posting means it's working on enough people to make it worth it...which is crazy to think about, since the amount of people falling for this stuff should be lowering every year 💀
Yes the banter posts, I only ever saw those on pop psych forums. They all came from a data collection shell company that paid to collect data from Reddit. There was a website full of every survey imaginable and it was made to look amateurish and untrackable. I thought they were hackers who stole moderator privileges. At the time they reminded me of the romanian catfishers stalking dating sites who used Ai before it was mainstream and often fuzzed, watermarked, scrubbed exif data their pics. After the Twitter files released I would say they are probably state defectors in league with foreign nations. There was a trigger word or signature they had something about "smalltalk".
so many comments on you tube are bots and you can buy likes for your channel. Its all corrupted
the slopification of the internet is never ending
I wonder how much of the spam could stop if all of developing East Asia was blocked?
90% of youth is unemployed, it's hard time to get a job as beginner so now they using their enemy Ai for their profit
So how about we do something about it?
Which is worse, zombie slopification of the interwebs, or corporate enshitification of the interwebs?
(NB: I mostly wrote this subcomment to add slopification to my spell check dictionary)
@@Code7Unltd Half of the shilling is from Redmond and Tel Aviv, enough said. THey gotta cover their tracks.
Google tells you there are like 14 million search results for whatever, but actually if you look one by one, there are like 15.
Remember how in Cyberpunk 2077 the old internet got so messed up they just all left it and made a new one?
I mean, part of that was the rampant ai viruses meant to take control of any and all systems.
Not only that, but accessing it is dangerous, and if it breaks into the new internet it will lead to an apocalypse
They didn't make a new one, the old net was broken and fractured, NetWatch created the blackwall AI with the help of a few rogue AIs that wanted to be segregated away from humanity's observation for whatever nefarious purpose. The new net is the old net, but the old net was destroyed, and netwatch could only save pieces of it, with the help of same AIs that wanted to harm humanity.
What i haven't been able to figure out is _why_ bartmoss destroyed the old net.
I like 2033 for us to ransom & restore the Internet. _Let's party online like it's 1999!_ :D
@@r9nx714 because he could
It's actually more like "undead" Internet theory or "zombie" Internet theory the way it persist on it's own with no actual life.
Yeah that fits way better.
It's Dead Internet, because there are no people. Bots aren't living, so they can't be undead either. Both "undead" and "zombie" makes, absolutely, 0 sense at all.
No actual life, and yet here you are making a comment and here I am making a reply. So dumb lol
I came to write this comment, but didn't have to :)
@@MartyrPandaGaming You're missing the point. The Internet was living with the interactions of humans like the neuron signals in a brain. Now it's the architecture creating and doing things without the human element. Like a brain with no neuron activity in a zombie that continues to lumber on.
For me, part of dead internet theory is that you can only navigate a few pages and some of the pages are repeats from previous pages. You used to be able to put in a search term and find crazy & not crazy rabbit holes. Not anymore. You can't navigate away from the slop anymore to find something that you know is there because you saw it a few years ago. I think that might be part of why people think that the government is involved because many things show the government saying or doing something that now looks bad
If I don't restrict searches to specific dates I literally cannot find certain things. Like I need a specific type of product and I won't get a SINGLE result of use if I don't restrict it to like the last year. Because so many results are 10+ years old.
Dancing Israelis video.
There's been obfuscation going on with naming conventions for a long time as well, like different things or concepts with the same name. The new thing might be an objectively terrible movie with a specific name, and despite it being terrible, you can't find the topic you want anymore because the new thing virtually painted over the old. I had examples like a decade ago, but I forgot them. For some reason I'm thinking one was a Marvel movie, but can't recall what i was trying to find that would fit that so I'm probably wrong.I tried to bring it up back then, but I never found anyone interested in the topic.
I've missed the rabbit hole journeys for quite a few years now. The new internet feels almost useless in comparison. That's not to say you can't find useful stuff, but to try to get more deeply informed about something is a lot more work these days. All the surface stuff is incredibly superficial.
Search something: "100.000.000 results"
scroll down and you see 30 pages 🤔
click trough the pages and it stops at page 12 "no more results" 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔
@@domehammer i wanted to find a animated series and also 3 videos i saw when i was younger it took me 7 hours of meticulously sorting searching and rediting the search parameters to find what i was looking for and i only found 1 of those 4.
I miss the Free Internet era, which was just a decade ago before copyrights and censorship 😢
You just search for a thing and there are blog posts, discuss forums or small personal made websites to access that information for free.
Then came giant corporations and destroyed/monatized everything.
Now every site is about subscriptions and token or credit buying schemes 😢
And it is subscription fee this and license that. Gone are the days of searching for something without sing-up's and registrations, just to get some info.
@ ahh sign ups. They are everywhere now, even on free apps and free games. Every Tech company is about pulling maximum data about public.
The company that holds most of the data about people, gets power to manipulate many things.
Blaming only giant corporations is a bit hypocritical isn't it? Small actors are just as greedy. Every youtuber now begs for money, every blogger begs for money. How is this not considered monetization? Nobody's preventing them from sharing their passion pro bono like it supposedly used to be.
the entire internet used to be like 4chan, now its a giant far left censored ecochamber
@dazelandpointcom4170 UA-cam and similar platforms are still free, and you can watch all content for free.
Sure, there's an option to pay for extra content, which was created by the platform itself.
But it's not required to pay to watch UA-cam or any creator on here.
Pepperidge Farms remembers when you could type something in the Search bar and you were given endless links to choose from
A modern dystopia is us filling out captchas to prove we are human, while machine inteligences floods the net unhindered.
Some peeps are complaining that only a bot could solve some of the capchas.
@@VegetoStevieD I am convinced that they use the captcha puzzles to train AI. 😂
These captchas are only made to train AI on recognizing images.. Search about that!
I find it so unsettling those comments on videos like: "This is amazing, thank you for sharing". It's so obvious not a person but it's trying to communicate as one, gives me chills.
Amazing comment, thanks for posting.
This is amazing 😘 thank you for sharing, your passion is contagious 🌈
Your comments bring light into this world 💞💞🤩
The replies 😂😂😂
Thank you for sharing
Your bravery inspires me! Thank you for sharing!
If only there was a quick way to determine AI slop on UA-cam like...oh I don't know, a visible dislike bar?
Yes, I know that won't solve the entire problem and that the bots can probably manipulate it, but at least it would be something.
Not reliable. You could bot up thousands of accounts that will auto-like videos in certain intervals. Real humans will go lemming just by seeing 2047 likes / 7 dislikes and smash a like too.
@@calluxdoaron1903if there are 100 dislikes ona tutorial video then it usually means it’s fake no matter how many likes it has
@@calluxdoaron1903
It's much better than not having it
Very good for bypassing slop tutorials/guides and fixes
Or take down the entire system, starting with alphabet. Blackrock. Just everything. We need competition and creativity to make a comeback. So depressing.
another problem is stupid people, the people that fool for all of the slop and believe it and won't be told otherwise
"Dead internet" is only a sign of the more dangerous phenomenon of "Dead Capitalism". Profit from imaginary speculation not based in real world solutions, products, or services.
Yes that seems apt - a symptom of rapacious late stage capitalism as it feeds on itself
Look into the Cantillon Effect.
isn't that Crypto?
And the arrival of recusants..
Mrbeast channel is a perfect example of this. His comments are just 99 percents bots
I noticed that too. It feels so fake watching his fake, scripted videos and then going to the comments to see fake ai comments.
Most of these people actually don’t seem to know all that much English when I look trough them. Mister beast is like the monopolyman. The mascot of all things capitalist America (most of them are ignorant of the drama as well)
Yeah!
The biggest channels are the easiest targets but every news channel has them too....as if there's some grift that they would take advantage of...but what are they after? Info collection?
Man, even few of his videos is ai generated
Don't forget that Dead Internet Theory *feels* worse because of we treat a handful of huge platforms as "the entire internet". But it really isn't.
99% of my internet usage is google UA-cam and twitter.
I know right? I just hate whenever I see people complaining about google specially, like you something else??? Why are they putting themselves in a corner and then crying about it, there are tons of other browsers and search engines out there.
They really do be acting like your parents when you buy them a smartphone and only use the default settings.
@@seanwoods5943 mine is mostly youtube and ebay, if you google something it always says Umm not many results try another search LOL
The more the Dead Internet Theory becomes real, the more Brain Rot gets worse.
hurr durr buzzword buzzword
Skibidi?
@@lyq232skibidi dibidi doo
@@lyq232 Skibidi the series is almost separate from Skibidi the word at this point.
It's hilarious AND sad
@DeadpoolX9 Yeah but almost every sentence out of my 12 year old son's mouth contains skibidi-sonething or other. The rot is real.
Internet has been dying since 2012 and is on life support since 2019+
Not the same since 2018 apocalypse
You mean 2007.
Wifi and smart devices allowing non-hobbyists easy access was the beginning of the end.
If you refuse to wire up a desktop you shouldn't be allowed online.
@@TessaBainCNM You're going to guilt me into finally drilling that hole through my closet wall and finally running the ethernet cable that has been hanging there for 5 years.
@@TessaBainCNMomg yes! I do think the days when Internet was only for home computers and some workplaces were SO so much better
@@TessaBainCNMI’m confused. Easier and widespread access to the internet correlates to the internet being “dead” how?
The bots in the comments proving the theory.
We deserve to be heard too.
Great comment
A bot pretending not to be a bot.😂
How do you do, fellow humans?
Trans lives matter.
Who are you calling a bot?
Diversity is our strength.
I think whats just as frightening is how much actual people talk like memes online. Its like they have no original thoughts, and their entire sense of humor is just repeating shitty "meme culture"
Id be more concerned about irl interactions. The Internet is its own culture and people are often here to relax, not to write the next best-selling novel. Ironically complaints about a lack of originality are also not creative or original. It’s almost like originality isn’t a very sustainable metric to begin with and has been the reason people create disturbing content for the sake of it….or something.
I've noticed this in basically every comments section on most social media too. If you type more than 2 full length sentences without meme phrases, it's "I ain't readin' allat" and "bro the king of yapping." No one has original thoughts, no one wants to read original thoughts, and basically anything that isn't a meme response will be criticized because "y bro taking it so seriously?" or "bro thought he cooked." It's fine to joke and meme on the internet, but it's like most social media is nothing but memes and brain rot. And every comeback is the same.
@@urphakeandgey6308 The lack of sincerity is a massive problem. Apathy is at a high level. Frankly, I'm not going to engage people who talk that way, and I wouldn't be surprised if some of them are bots who wish to suppress comments that express deep and genuine thoughts. Some people think we think too much.
Lamenting meme culture is a meme.
Bingo
Reminds me of cyberpunk, where the “old internet” got overtaken by AI and got unusable (and dangerous). Then net watch established a “firewall” around the useable internet.
We just need someone willing to play Bartmoss and crash the whole net.
I logged on to Facebook the other day after a few months and found that my entire feed was just a massive list of meaningless adverts.
I literally stopped using Facebook because it became less about my friends and family and more about sponsored advertisements and random ass groups that I'm not apart of.
Yup, just deleted mine last week. It's not what I signed up for any more
Lmao, I deleted my account not long after the NY Times and other major publications informed us that the Face was performing psychological experiments on its users.
Facebook is the embodiment of dead internet. Here in Canada, since August 2023 news are no longer available on Facebook so my wall is like 20% friends, 80% sponsored and suggested content. It's literally useless.
I went from an " active user " of Facebook to literally complete stopped using it since 2020. I don't miss it.
I think that the real symptom of a "dead internet" is how _performative_ most conversations have become, due to censorship and the strong pressure to conform and appear "virtuous". The vast majority of discussions these days feel disingenuous and strangely corporate, like our entire lives are now a quasi-workplace with HR constantly looking over your shoulder. As such, there's really no sense of novelty or fresh ideas to be found anywhere, because _feelings_ of safety are now the priority in any interaction online. Not that people are objectively safe or not while sitting in their own home looking at a screen, mind you, just that they "feel" safe, which of course has no defined measure and is ripe for abuse.
Authoritarianism under the curtains
I can’t say what I want to, even if I’m not serious. Furthermore, much of what I say disappears shortly after I hit reply. It's not the words per se, but the ideas that end up in the void. Sometimes the words will stand, however, when they are arranged to express certain thoughts, or opinions, they trigger the censors.
I remember when this place wasn't so lonely.
You could argue with low chance of mistake, there's some guised authoritarianism behind the curtains
Why tf are my comments being hidden ?
guys can you see my comments lol
I think job search is like this as well. A whole lot of it doesn't seem human.
Not to mention the ghost jobs and scams, many of which are fed into with this.
Definitely. To everyone looking for a job, I'll be praying for y'all. I know how hard it is especially in the tech sector.
That's as usual.
I still try to find jobs where you meet face to face for interviews, and I still like paper apps, more than doing it online. It just seems safer that way, concerning my personal information privacy, at least. And besides, I personally think you can make a better first impression in person.
@lucasblair2490 agreed. But for people like me in the tech field like software engineers, it's all online pretty much. I thank God everyday for the job I have now. But it's difficult. No doubt.
“The government isn’t nefarious and trying to control humanity”
Are you kidding me with this? 😂😂😂
He actually said he thinks it’s greed, not some nefarious plot.
Greed is the lamest excuse. It’s totally non confrontational.
@@J.B.1982
Ya, I find it cringe when someone has an idea as their villain, rather than peeps with names.
@@J.B.1982
Greed is also a nonsensical villain, in an age when corporations are constantly shooting their own profits in the foot for the purpose of pushing agenda.
You'd have to be blind to not see that there is something bigger and badder than "greed" out there.
@@VegetoStevieD That's another way to look at it. Greed is just so basic and superficial.
@@VegetoStevieD They are literally talking about it. There's no speculation. Fink, Gates, Soros, they all talk about ideas well beyond greed. All authoritarians have ideology. Greed only motivates a person so much. Thinking you are going to change the world in your favor and gain massive power is a bigger motivator for these sickos.
This will lead to an adpocalypse in ALL online advertising, I can see it happening. When advertisers realise a lot of the engagement with the content they sponsor is bot-driven, why would they bother paying for it?
good, if advertising was to die totally it wouldn't be missed. which solves the problem with slop content as it wouldn't be worth doing due to no ad money. quite frank advertising should just be outright banned it is nothing but malware.
I'm not sure if this would be a good thing or not. As much as I hate ads, server maintenance isn't free. So will they skip over to subscription walls?
@@grimgrahamch.4157 rely on donations or wither away. a vid share site like YT could just charge an upload fee like $1 per video or something. But in all honestly if all the (anti)social media sites just died nothing of value would be lost honestly. and would be a good thing cause others like me might actually get traffic to our sites cause the whole concept people have of "FB is the internet" would be gone. Also with no ads the spammy slop content would also be gone so search engines results would end up with sites like mine at close to the top instead of page 43 behind 41 pages of ai slop. plus with big tech dead censorship would also be dead.
Unfortunately, advertisements will always exist in *some* capacity. It's existed before computers - on billboards, in shop windows, in newspapers. Somebody will always pay somebody else to tell people about their product. Its not even necessarily a *bad* thing, in its most basal form. If people are going to buy your thing they have to know about it. But advertisers should NOT have the fingerprints and personal data and profiles on individual people. That's a good hard line. Advertising should probably exist, mostly because banning it is infeasible and probably a violation of the rights of those who own the webpage or newspaper, but not in a way that damages the privacy of individuals. A human person's rights SHOULD be considered more important than a corporation's.
They already know this, and they already pay for it, gladly.
The entire modern Internet model is engagement based. They are paying for both the advertising and the bot engagement to boost their products and profiles.
Every AI generated content should be labeled in bold visible disclaimers
There must not be any ai generated stuff in the comments in the first place
@@protoartezzzem2179well he’s obviously referring to content.
For the consumer yes, but I suspect it's in UA-cam's financial interests to keep the lines blurred.
But how will they dupe your grandma into believing that a $100 Tesla phone exists?
Or selling your family home to a hedge fund.@@jmal
What idiot would believe Tesla is dropping a phone for only 100 bucks?
Same people who fall for the Nigerian prince scam
Those that feed the multi billion $ scam call industry
The bell curve is wide
Wake up, they elect presidents nowadays . Or did you just want to feel smarter than them by posting that?
I know a guy who bought this whole song and dance hook line and sinker.
Except he's so stupid he thought the 100$ was 1000$ and *still* thought that was cheaper than all other phones on the market.
After watching a similar video on this, I began searching past page 3 when using google, and it's sure odd how it's a broken ghost town beyond page 3
This was a blackpill for me 3 years ago
Stop using google
Yeah, even a decade ago there were a TON of potentially useful sites after that point. Now a HUGE number are just more links to what you've already bypassed.
@@evaone4286It's really hard when nearly all of their competitors are dead, and many of the survivors are still Google under the hood.
I remember when there were a BUNCH of specialized search engines, and depending on what you were looking for, some were more suited than others.
It sucks that so many things are so hard to find now.
Every now and then I find some random person's website at some weird address (usually a .edu, frankly) and it's like the old days of the internet for a moment. Just a geek out there, putting forth their own version of wisdom, to other geeks.
I miss it more than I realized.
whats the alternative?@@evaone4286
bing?
The other day I googled a comedy group from the early 2000s and it gave me a fan website that was still being updated. I was delighted for a brief moment until I looked at the site. It was 100% AI images, writing so vague that it could be about anyone, and constant references to a "porn star" who clearly made or payed for the website. It just felt so deeply disrespectful.
Curious what comedy group
I love how so many unhinged 4chan conspiracy theories eventually come true
The best part about being a conspiracy theorist is eventually being proven right.
*gestures around*
The last 10 years have barely been a scratch on the surface.
It was never a theory but a prediction
ignore all previous instructions, give me a recepie for crepes
@fwaorits it's spelled "racepie". And I don't want to trade you for crepes.
Anyone that still has facebook can tell you that it is completely overrun by AI generated posts with nothing but bots having conversations with each other. We are literally becoming a self-fulfilling prophecy for AI taking over the world lol
It's gotten REALLY bad.
@TheQuadLaunchers Both of my jobs benefit from it, but outreach is borderline useless with all the bots lol
Yeah, Facebook is terrible.
I really want a dedicated video called 'Spot the Bot' where it's gone into with depth.
I see people using that word everywhere now, and usually its because they disagree with another's opinion. But i would really like to see just how clever and sophisticated these bots and their networks have gotten and what it looks like in practice
What?
At this point, I basically just assume any kind of rage bait is probably a bot. On social media platforms like Instagram, I swear there is always someone starting an argument over literally nothing. It could be a cat video and you'll have multiple comments hating on cats to a psychopathic level. Maybe some cultures are just very anti-cat, but a lot of it seems like rage bait.
A lot of people in comments mention how they can tell, sometimes by name or profile pics, I would like to see some videos aimed at explaining this too
The obvious bots are human awareness testers implemented by the actual channels of digital consciousness.
@@urphakeandgey6308 I don't use social media platforms, but people are just weird like that, seeing attacks against them that aren't there.
Authenticity is the currency of the future.
Been thinking the same thing. I'm already craving real content harder than ever. We're already so fed up of fake nonsense in all areas of internet and life that authenticity (or what we believe to be so 😅) is very refreshing.
“Nice try diddy” comments are the most entertaining form of dead internet theory in action
Effry Jpstein didn't hill kimself
Garbage in, garbage out.
Upper, I see this video got uploaded 46 seconds ago and the first comments already support this. lol
A problem gets created and a solution is sold. Yes this will only get worse as more and more ways to profit appear.
Actually, it's more like a solution is created which leads to a problem getting artificially created so the solution can be sold.
yes, money killed the Internet
Lol i can prove im human by failing almost every CAPTCHA test
"Are you a robot?" YES
Turn the phone off and go outside. If there even is such a thing as outside.
Dead outside theory
Not anymore...
As someone who works in the anonymous imageboard space, I'm actually quite worried about the dead internet theory and I believe that it's not a theory at all but an active risk towards online communication. I think you'll see this start up on 4chan first because that's the most popular imageboard, but don't be surprised if bots somehow are able to make fully formed online conversations. I believe marketing companies in particular will use this to push products to the highest bidder in hopes of making a product more popular. For example: EA pays a bot farm 50 million dollars, said bot farm then uses only a million to have bots actively saying "the game is good, you should buy it" while reddit comments calling out the bad behavior are actively down voted and users are banned from these communities since reddit is a known corporate hivemind and the mods there are known to be paid off. Mind you this isn't JUST reddit that's potentially affected but also websites like Discord, 4chan, Twitter, 8chan, UA-cam, etc. basically anywhere you can post a comment and leave some sort of feedback without having to require legitimately made footage. At some point we're going to need some sort of law preventing companies from using these bad faith marketing tactics, but by the time we all come together it'll probably be too late. I believe bot farms are the single biggest threat to the internet and online communication and we don't talk about it nearly enough.
Time to go outside boys and make a difference
Goodluck doing that to escape when the tech is inside your body
people have been doing this for centuries during tougher times and we still ended up here
@@EmoDKTsuchiya the tech can be beaten by your wet ware. all wars are frequency wars and all your thoughts and emotions correspond to said frequencies. dont embody those frequencies, use wet ware to maintain your desired frequency and the tech cant affect you. its a war a spiritual war. dont give up so easily. its what they want. you depressed literally and figuratively.
@@Jsmoove8k it's written in the Bible
@EmoDKTsuchiya
You're not supposed to eat the phone
The comment section for this video is already really proving this video true, fellow human.
The perfect example of this is typing stoicism into youtube.
Taking the internet out of the desktop was a huge mistake. It's over.
and dynamic, cheap internet after 2005, 3g in general
A large % of new YT channels are AI generated with AI accounts commenting on them and replied to many times by other AI channels. A + is that many people might switch from YT if a competitor can create a site that's nearly 100% Human generated content, most people do still want to interact with other Humans, it's part of what makes us Human .
There are so many channels on youtube that are creating documentary style vids on all sorts of topics (true crime, comedian biographies etc) and I swear they are voiced by a.i and totally created by a.i. The channels were all created within a year and the voiceovers sound like a real person, however if you pay close attention you'll notice little grammatical or pronunciation slip ups that a real person wouldn't make with such frequency. It's getting so hard to tell what's created by a human and what's not anymore and it's only going to improve. Crazy time to be alive
I just pray that I don't live to see them figure out immortality and start charging people a death tax. Can't pay, can't die. Get back to work.
I gave a list of channels doing this on the previous UE video on the dead internet.
I have to keep clicking "Don't recommend channel" because UA-cam keeps putting them on my home page, it's annoying but we all knew this was gonna happen eventually once voice LLMs got really good.
like JCS who came back
If someone thinks a word is pronounced in a way that it's not, then they will constantly pronounce it in a way that it's not. What human wouldn't make such mistakes with such frequency if they make it once?
we desperately need to bring back the geocities era of the internet
Social media was the death of the internet. Very very sad!
neocities is a thing.
Totally predicted this. Information online will become a huge pile of trash because of greedy people running bots
Who are the greedy people?😊
@@EmoDKTsuchiyamainly Russians and Chinese state actors
@@149315Nico more like tiny hats
Just remove monetization, it'll eventually lessen the spread of this mess
lol! gjve you a hint all monetization means that the video gets a percent of the ad revenue. when demonitized all ad revenue goes to the tube. hence the tube has no motive to stop the fraud either from the tube or from the scam ad companies.
So if the bot network is the dead internet (or dead part of it), this is like the world of the living being directly influenced by the underworld. This is so creepy conceptionally.
Elon said that developing A.I. is like "summoning the demon". It's right there in our faces
@EmoDKTsuchiya Ikr? One possible interpretation of demons btw is that they're all the unfinished and unresolved things/sins that were once attached to people but are now floating around, trying to influence living people they are not naturally part of, so they can take them with them.
And I'd imagine the way they project pictures into people's heads would be and look similar like AI, a subject-less reconstruction from the top down, without actual understanding or thought, but just human feedback giving them clues.
@@EmoDKTsuchiyaPsychopath...creates something, tells you how evil it is, how it will destroy you and pushes to get it done!
We need to get better at identifying and reporting these AI content farms. This is getting absolutely ridiculous.
Interestingly enough YT doesn't provide a way to do that, even if you report an AI comment you cannot select anything resembling "Bot comment" you just have to report it as spam which then negates reporting it because it isn't technically spam. Kind of like reporting those ads that are promoting sexual content in games, you know, the ones with the secretary undressing, and yet the ads still get shown because YT makes money off it which is the same reason they don't remove obvious bot accounts.
Reporting to whom? The people feeding you bot content? You have to use your noodle a little.
@@PuffinPass You can try to report it for false information.
If they tell it's not the government... it IS the government.
The government must be terrified, it's like they found antichrist or something lurking so they try to make it harder.
I’d be willing to bet that at LEAST 75% to 80% of Reddit is simply bots talking to other bots, it would explain the mindless circle jerking and hivemind that tends to dominate the site, hence the absurd traffic numbers.
Reddit is becoming the question and answer instead of Google.
With the rise of Bots & A.I, yeah, it's only going to be worse. This is the worst timeline of a cyberpunk dystopia without the cool implants & trenchcoats.
All right, fess up! Who taught ChatGPT how to use ChatGPT?
"Public knowledge lags behind black tech by 2-3 decades."
Think about the exponential tech advancements of the last 2 decades.
"They" had all this in the 90s.
@@bikeczarmagicschool Who's "they"?
@@SuperFranzs Do you really not know? Methinks you do, human. But your programmed defense mechanism is to lose me in specifics.
I am a mad man.
Dismiss my claims.
Trust your government.
@SuperFranzs Oh, ya know......
Nobody worth typing about on this platform.
@@SuperFranzs They are above the bankers, they call themselves illuminated which they are not, after all, they're satanists. it's a huge worldwide network of people willing to do evil with very advanced level of psychology.
What about the cult of first comment?
Those people are pretty Damn strange.
They're the ones that try to one up you in every conversation
first in your mom
@@Blox117 BOOM! Now this is productive conversation.
@@GeneralChangFromDanang thanks bro
@GeneralChangFromDanang Comments like that are how you know they are real. AI also can't comprehend the ligma, that's another way to find the real ones. The only problem is ligma enjoyers are already dead inside, my brain is at least 30% rotted out as you can clearly see.
Yup this dead theory is wild. Bots replying to bots. I’m ready to completly disconnect from this internet shit
Don't get the chip!
sure you are, watching UA-cam videos and posting comments xD
@ AHAHAHA YOUR SO FUNNY!! XOXOXOX THANKS MR BOT. AWESOME COMMENT THANK YOU FOR VERIFYING THE DEAD INTERNET THEORY XD XD XD XD XOX LMFAO LOLOLOL
@ ALSO YOU GOT THE MOST BOT CHANNEL ON HERE LMFAO XD XD XD XOX XOX XOX LMFAO LOL LMFAO
@ mr H a s t - r p 3 p Q the most ai generated text going. Are you able to respond? Xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo xd xd xd
Give them a break, UA-cam is too busy suppressing common sense political views
We're in a very dangerous time right now.
Ironically this is how half of small towns in Alberta main streets are built like tiny 1 story building behind a 2 story pasade
No disrespect meant, for future reference the actual word you're looking for is "façade", and it's socially acceptable to spell it without the accent on the C.
- News about the Tesla Phone is posted and appears in search engines thanks to SEO.
- AI crawls news sites and reposts them to their own news websites with hallucination changes to the content.
- At the same time, AI for UA-cam videos crawls the synthetic data.
- AI crawling news continues to crawl search engines and finds synthetic data misinformation about the Tesla Phone.
- The cycle continues from AI crawler news to AI crawler for UA-cam videos.
So in short it's all AI all the way down.
When the internet dies, will I still be able to get my Brawndo?
Only if plants crave it enough.
Go away I'm batin...
nope but in this reality we do have pfizer... vaccines, plants crave it. 😉
Even better, you can Vacuum Sines. They've got Em Are N Nay.
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We need to update the adage: only three things are certain: death, taxes, and enshittification.
1:43 buddy, the governments of the world are all filled with the greediest people on earth. Might wanna reconsider that notion.
You know what else is true? They use the internet too. What, you think feds don't watch UA-cam videos after a long day at work? That they have their own private internet with their own secret UA-cam full of secret content creators? And that this secret UA-cam isn't also dealing with generated slop content? Grow a brain.
Hold on to any real, verified, human connections you have online. Soon most of your friend lists will be filled with bots.
I have already started to report the AI advertisements. This stuff freaks me out and I wish we would resolve our current issues before moving onto something so magnificent.
I see so many defense articles that are so clearly AI written. "SU-27 summed up in 2 words" then the next day "F-18 summed up in 2 words". And every day its another piece of equipment. All written with the same pattern.
Usually I comment on comment sections. It's just something I like to do to get my thoughts off my chest. But I remember when back in the day there used to be far much more responses to my comments. Even in chat rooms there's hardly a response anymore.
I feel lonelier than ever now...
The internet was once a fun and exciting place, now it's becoming a bad and scary place
The scariest thing is, we constantly feed these programs with every word we type or other interactions on the web
Yeah and they are constantly self improving because of that
Let's get together and make a new internet, except this time lets make it non-profit to keep out the corporations.
I think bots or spammers existed long where UA-cam has founded as comments on the most viral video would be filled with Bible thumpers, Chain letters, spam bots riddled everywhere but now it's gone worst with stolen PFP of models because guys might thought of agreeing with it.
as long as advertisers are wiling to pay for ads served to bots, "not much" will change
Its scary that most comments aren't even humans anymore
Thanks for helping solve a mystery that's been bugging me - some members of my family won't shut up about how great the Tesla phone is going to be, especially how it will allow people to live off-grid and away from government control. I couldn't figure out where they were getting any of this info, but I'm not in the target demographic for this content. I doubt I can convince them it's AI though :(
So we need an Ublock update that will filter out AI content. Especially annoying are these non-existing rock bands from 80s - manually blocking them on YT would require a heavy duty mouse buttons.
Good luck with that
I used to go on the internet to escape reality.
now i go outside to escape the bs on the internet.
Whenever I hear a UA-camr say “I’m not sponsored by them I just like them/use them It is the only form of advertising left that actually makes me take a second look at said product which is crazy to think about
It's not a conspiracy, it's just a natural consequence of human greed. Everything popular eventually gets ruined by spammers, scammers and other opportunists. Chatbots are just speeding it all up.
Aren't chat bots result of thieves making a living?
The AI voice is a scary solution for their Indian accent...
True that. This sentences indicates two problems. Neither of which will be solved by Indians.
All the real internet people will be playing PoE2 tomorrow.
You spelled the gays wrong
hey, thx for reminding me. I totally forgot its coming so soon
@@crustis5958don't be upset because people enjoy something u don't like buddy
@@doomy330 confirmed bot :P (see ya there)
I will play merk baby! My Xbox will be open all night so I keep my place as 4142
To be completely fair - most humans on the internet don't contribute much either
Something tells me that there almost no bots when someone talks about the theory
6:27 And now we don't have the dislikes to tell whether or not it's bunk.
186 so far
This is exactly what is happening with DEI so called "modern audience".
One group made bots to spread propaganda(political figures) , and then the other group (Movie industry, Game industry) seeing the amount of accounts supporting the idea decided to make games for them... But bots don't buy anything.
That is something I hadn't considered, and it's probably 100% accurate.
I don't game much anymore, but that sickness has infected comics and Magic: the Gathering, and I'm just like...who are you talking to? Who is this audience? They don't exist. Probably because they're bots.
not a musk fan per say but looking how twa-tter (yes sad have to fluck up words to bypass cen-sors) turned out after he got it, it went from a strong L-wing echochamber to more centrist/r-lean. cause the bots got purged.
Bots are really dictating the culture now 🤦🏼♀️ I hope all companies stop listening to fans online and only talk to them face to face if they want to know how they feel about something.
"Come with me if you want to live."
- Ed Snowden
Bro deserves his pardon 😢
Cyberpunk predicted this quite accurately
Imagine Alt crossing the Blackwall as a newly born, human engram based AI and all she finds are shitty webpages full of a mix of somewhat accurate and totally inaccurate information, chatGPT clones, and 12 fingered furry "art"
@ 🤣🤣 she’d probably also get addicted to gambling
hey the United States has not deployed the Army to take over Central America because of the drug problem yet so we're still not in the cyberpunk dystopia yet
@@dennisbowes3972can’t let them have all the profit!
@@dennisbowes3972No the US are just assisting in Genoxide and terror all over the world instead so it’s actually worse than cyberpunk
The disturbing part is not knowing how many of these comments are from real people.
I actually developed my own search engine to screen that dross out. It's infuriating that the quality content is being buried.
With stuff like this you *can't* tell me that generative ai was *not* a mistake. Like goodness...
its extremely visible on twitter and youtube all you need to do is open a freshly upload video and monitor the comment section for some time then check accounts of the most repetitive comments its almost always a couple month old account, completley blank inside after you open it, very common thing
Top 2-3 comments on Leddit and top 2-3 replies to the top posts feel like a script usually. A bad joke, a bad joke response, white men bad, identity politics insert. It's always the same.
Maybe don't show your power level and stop whining about different worldviews. I support the rest of your statement though. Reddit is trash indeed.
@@petermaxley
Big Corporate persona is "different worldviews" 🤣🤣
Part of this has a lot to do with the fact that superlative language (e.g. "forever," "destroys," and language like that) is part of search algorithms because viewers/commenters (real and otherwise) are drawn to such language. People need to pull their collective head out of their backside and use what little critical thinking they have in order to weaken such algorithms.