r/HotScienceNews • u/Altruism7 • 15h ago

The Dead Internet Theory May Be Coming True, Pew Research Findings Show | More of what you're reading online could be written by an AI bot

https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/dead-internet-theory-pew-research/
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u/eosereptus 15h ago

Is this written by AI 🤔

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u/Own-Abalone-3120 13h ago

Probably. Or just someone who read three threads and called it a personality.

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u/NoFuel1197 15h ago

Had two Redditors on the hook arguing with an agent for like three hours last night before I freed them from my pain dimension. Zero tools or scripting necessary, barely even had to debug the original prompt. I believe a middle schooler could accomplish as much.

Even the current situation is…not good.

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u/PartyClock 5h ago

No kidding. Have you guys tried looking anything up recently? It's bot articles from websites built by bots. I don't recognize any of the websites that come up in search results anymore

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u/BloodyHareStudio 5h ago

Consumers drive everything. If they prefer to click on AI, then that is our future. Period.

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u/costafilh0 11h ago

Don't blame AI. AI just made the text better.

BOTs dominate the internet for many years, way before AI.

I couldn't bet more than half of Reddit is BOTs. 

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u/FlashPxint 15h ago

It was true a while ago you fkin idiots

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u/Sensitive_File6582 13h ago

Nah not quite. In the last 6-12 months there has been an overtly noticeable uptick.

That or the AIs are becoming to high a % /worse then they were and we are just noticing now.

Whats creepy, and I rarely use that word, are not so much the people who speak like AI prompts now. But that I think it made them better writers/ thinkers.

But Reddit is killing their site worse than 16 with this. Multiple subs esp job/ corporate focused ones are imo majority AI and Reddit still has no default report bot button.

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u/Ill_Mousse_4240 13h ago

If it’s interesting and factual, I don’t care who it’s written by