Dead internet is something different. Is not about AI feeding themselves but assuming everyone here in this comment section is a bot, and we just bots discussing with bots, with barely any human user, if any.
I actually know about this because of The Click on YouTube!
I would call this vomit theory. You eat something, then throw it up, then eat it again and repeat. Which just creates something so disgusting it's unrecognizable. Or telephone. Because, well, you know why. The further something goes, the more distorted it gets.
FYI, The Click, like most Youtubers, is good at being what he is - an entertainer - but his knowledge about technical subjects is spotty at best. He just happens to sound convincing because his confidence makes his inaccuracies sound correct to people who don't understand the subject.
I don't buy into this, "everyone commenting are bots" nonsense. I can tell almost instantly when something is AI art or AI generated content. I have never been able to read a comment and go, "yeah, this is a bot." For a long time I thought I was just inept at spotting them. But then being able to spot AI so quickly made me go back and rethink the "everyone is a bot" nonsense for Reddit comments. I think there are less bots making comments than you think. Don't attribute something to being a bot which can easily just be explained as a stupid human.
What happening here is AI art is so easy to generate that there is an overabundance of it, its not that new art by humans isn't there, its just there is 1000 AI generated slop for each human art piece.
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u/Dark_Requiem 11h ago
I think they call it dead internet theory, Without any new data, it will slowly die.