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GoddessPurpleFrost t1_j65pu24 wrote

Reply to comment by mattcoady in BuzzFeed says it will use AI to help create content, stock jumps 150% | CNN Business by KennyFulgencio

If you've never heard of the dead internet theory, its a pretty hot take thats exactly this.

You have chatbots and AI already commenting on twitter, facebook, writing articles, people using chatGPT to make youtube content that all you have to do is just read off from for your channel, etc.

Essentially there is no real people on the internet anymore (hence, dead internet). It is already very much AI's generating the vast majority of content people consume, so it's definitely already here that AIs are echoing each-other and you don't even know about it. It's absolutely bonkers

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veringer t1_j68jr6d wrote

> It is already very much AI's generating the vast majority of content people consume.

Um, can you provide a source for this claim please?

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Zombie_Harambe t1_j65u1z9 wrote

Given how little people do at work and how many are idly on their phone watching TV I would never buy such a theory. People are lazy.

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RidleyX07 t1_j67sbie wrote

Yeah but if everyone is so lazy to do stuff... Then who's making it??

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littlebubulle t1_j68dsja wrote

Usually passionate and/or crazy people.

Some content creators just do it out of passion.

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Nick_Full_Time t1_j6dni1z wrote

I’m going to assume it’s the people that currently show up on my Instagram explore page that say “make $10,000 a month using chat GDP“.

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Curious_Planeswalker t1_j6egjh8 wrote

> Yeah but if everyone is so lazy to do stuff... Then who's making it??

I mean there is the 1% rule which states that only 1% create new content while the rest of the 99% are just lurkers

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TheVitulus t1_j68jh9c wrote

The problem with this theory is that AI-generated writing is just now hitting the mainstream, and it's only been in the past few years that AI-writing has gotten somewhat competent. GPT-1 was created back in 2018 and, while impressive, it was extremely easy to tell that it was a bot. Things are approaching a tipping point now, but until ChatGPT at least, it's just been cheaper and easier to hire some poor freelance writer a couple hundred bucks to shit out an article about whatever's trending on twitter than to have an AI write it and then edit it to pass scrutiny.

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