The Dead Internet Theory

What a cool dystopian short film it would make if a guy who spends all his time cooped up in his apartment on the internet finally notices he's the only person alive.

Disclaimer: No AI was used in the making of this video. Thanks for watching!

I've noticed google getting progressively less helpful and all articles are either an ad for something, or so poorly written it might actually be written by a dumb human or dumb bot. Either way, it has become useless to search for things anymore

Just some clarification: I'm seeing a lot of comments talking about how I said in 2021 "there was no widespread generative AI". By that I didn't mean generative AI didn't exist before 2021 (I've been doing videos on them since 2018) What I meant was that it wasn't "widespread"  Just wanted to clear that up. Cheers

ColdFusion is the most convincing Bot on the interwebs …. Respect 🙏🏼

From the moment you listed critical thinking and seeking further context as essential skills for online usage, I knew we as a species were doomed.

The worst part about this is that it has barely been 10 years of the modern era of internet (post MySpace/askJeeves) and already the internet is becoming unusable due to bot accounts and bot spam, imagine what this looks like in 50 years lmao

I'd like to think that the Internet becoming so untrustworthy will one day push people out of the digital realm and enjoy outside/real-life more, but I highly doubt it...

The golden age of the internet is long passed unfortunately. Not just because of bots, but because of social media sites as well. 2005-2015 were the best years.

I feel so sad knowing the platform that once used to be full of people is now more than half filled with bots.