Dead Internet Theory

[Zamazenta the OS-Tan Fan 5]

Hey Guys,

I originally this was going to be a status post but I think this is way too important and big of a deal (or is going to become in the near future I would say give it 1 or 2 years and you will finally wake up to what I'm talking about.) just to be status post but I decided to make it its own post.

Some people may think its an conspiracy some might think its true but whatever your stance on this is you gotta here me out on this ever since 2023 AI has been the name of the game whether its been AI Chatbots, AI Images (My least favourite I think they just look ugly and they are garbage but again I do not like AI as a whole.), AI Music, and now even freaking AI Videos (Thanks OpenAI did you really need to do that I hate OpenAI SORA with a passion its right next to AI Art.), you see AI is the name of the game but if its not already just give it 1-2 years and boom it will be the only piece of shit you can interact with on the internet because AI is advancing at such a rapid pace at this point that I don't even think well need to wait 1-2 Years, now I want to bring your attention something bad that just happened on YCM too long ago BOTS it started in February of 2024 where we had Porno BOTS and other types of advertisement BOTS trying to get us to click on those links or just posting creating treads, or replying to other people's post on YCM via threads or status which was why YCM's activity seemed dead at the time its still not better now but it got so bad too the point where users on YCM started joking about it... the BOTTING Problem which only just stopped now even a month ago when YCMaker/Falling Pizza returned to gaslight us with a post how we should all appreciate how YCM exist and them wanting us to create cards and be happy and not complain "Sorry" "Sorry" I was getting a little off topic.

But we could obviously tell that those where scams either trying to infect our devices with Malware, scam us out of our money, or just plainly waste our time and its pretty obvious that BOTS go dumb dumb oh if you only knew how good we have it for now... but think a couple months or years and you will wish you could go back in time, right now the BOTS lack the fundamentals to do anything harmful in a successful manner some other BOTS are already utilizing the power of "AI" luckily we didn't have to deal with that here because they where not using AI or they wouldn't be posting links to porno sites and try to be on topic and not try to put you into their little scheme right away it would have been done in more smartly ehhh kinda which is really scary when you really think about it this doesn't help when you have stupid little prickly rich billionaire assholes like "Sam Altman" who wants everything and anything to become AI and its bad enough that they infringe on copyright laws and take people's shit without consent their Training Data isn't even public I could just go on and on about it all day but this should be saved for another day.

Now ever since the boom in AI especially in AI Art I have noticed that the amount of AI Images on YCM has significantly went up and this is only made worse because YCMaker deiced "well if you can't beat them you might as well join them" and has implemented an goddamn freaking AI Image Generator for what reason well the reason is that is so that user's didn't have to go to another site to generate the images and then bring them but last year cr47t made a Petition and Open Letter to YCMaker to ban AI Art on the Card Maker and considering that most of the images generated by AI is straight up just theft and plagiarism and it was something artists where pissed off about even making videos about how much they hate it and the reasons why there should be regulations on AI Image Generators can produce but it even got so bad where they where producing explicit photos of minors like WTF man they collect so much data to train on these image generators that companies like Microsoft, OpenAI, Midjouerny, and StableDiffusion don't give a fuck about anyone but themselves its just a game of profit at the end of the day but it got so bad that the government had to step in and clean this shit up you don't know how serious this is than we have idiots and many others that try to defend and downplay this like its "nothing" and saying AI is not going away no we know that all we want to do is just regulate it but you idiots are ruining that for us damn the AI Bros will defend their AI Pals its all bullshit 1 year later AI Art is still in the Card Maker and the bugs with it are still there too YCMaker is such a lair I know this turned into something else how did it go from Dead Internet Theory to Zama rants about AI I will get to that now don't rush me.

So what does this all have to do with AI "EVERYTHING" as AI improves and gets better as a whole the internet will get worse bad bots already make up 30% of all activity on the web a cyber security analysis company gave the public the data about it now you throw AI into the mix and everything suddenly gets way worse The Dead Internet Theory has been going on for over a decade now because Social Media was ruining the web and I still think Social Media is ruining the web and still don't like it but we have bigger fish to worry about just some stupid Social Media sites by 2026 it is predicted that most of the things we interact with will all be AI and at this pointing its already starting to look at that is going to be the case we already have AI Garbage in the form of users generating AI Images and posting them in Card Based Threads which I already see that garbage everyday and have to blacklist users that are into that kind of stuff or do that kind of stuff because I don't wanna see it I just get angry when seeing AI Art you may think this is funny but I think you are not seeing the bigger picture hmmm you gotta ask yourself this what is the end game here why are the companies doing this is why are they so pushy when it comes to AI and since 2023 everyone has been on the AI Hype Train and I don't like it I have a right not to like it is that not okay or is that just me being offensive in what I see as garbage on the internet no I have my reasons there are those out there that are Anti-AI but there will always be people who are too dumb and stupid and want to side with AI no matter what happens this is what is going to be the Internet's biggest downfall.

Don't believe me than why has all of the search engines from Bing to Google have been getting worse just look at this Reddit Post yes Reddit yes we all love to poke fun and laugh at it but its the only thing that I could find that will not be shoved under a pile of AI SEO Garbage articles all just spouting all the same fucking nonsensical garbage all trying to get number 1 on Google Search Results so they spam and flood SEO Results with AI Generated Garbage clogging up the 1st page of Google Search Results its not necessary about Google Search Engine becoming garbage its mostly affects all SEO as a whole and is an SEO Problem companies that write articles or only focused on trying to get as many clicks as possible garbage in garbage out and with AI things are only bound to get worse if we don't take any actions to restrict it and strip down as much of its power and harm as possible its effects on the web have already proven to be true just take a look at Twitter OH wait I mean X for eXample yeah I only made the X big as a joke but take a look at that garbage platform that place is full of AI BOTS this is only going to get worse if we don't do anything about this and regulators don't regulate it hard enough or fast enough of what AI can be used for and what it couldn't be used for and that's not all anyone and everyone has access to AI cause its out in the open and that is the part that also makes it very dangerous if there isn't any actions taken against it now it may seem like people like you and me are powerless but we can do this all you need to do is contact your senators or PMs based on which countries you live in and keep contacting them with messages of how much you want AI regulated and controlled I can't do this alone but together we can make a difference we may seem like nobody which we probably our but come on our efforts combine greatly when we all work together if somebody can make a change it can be US and the only way to do that is if we complain to the government enough share this message with your friends, family, strangers, anybody share this everywhere I want it to reach out to as many people as possible the louder our voice the louder they will hear us and actually want to do something about it "You" could be the one that saves the future of the "Internet" so future generations have access to it and can look back at its history long after we are all gone.

So why did I go on this long rant because I watched this YouTube video and I think you should too its 30 Minutes yeah yeah your attention span is too short but we have to try to save the future of the internet for future generations it took me over 2 hours to write and post this forum post I will leave a YouTube video and I will also leave a post of the authors original post from Macintosh Cafe down below I've been writing this for over 2 hours now and I'm saying this as I'm finishing up writing this I all hope you have a good day.

Forum Post of the original person who talked about this in 2021: https://forum.agoraroad.com/index.php?threads/dead-internet-theory-most-of-the-internet-is-fake.3011/ (Beware that this may contain offensive stuff that may trigger you and it also kind of goes of on the deep end.)

[yui 577]

So I got curious and decided to give this a looksee. I'm not gonna watch a 30-minute youtube video just to reply to a forum post because there's no topic on or beyond this earth that I'm that invested in, but from what I gathered reading your post on the matter...

Seems kinda silly, don't it?

Much as I'd love to make a nice beefy post about this, I know I'm not gonna be able to do so without going into several sidenotes that have nothing to do with the matter at hand, so I'll keep this nice & concise. The notion that we'll be mostly interacting with AI in the future is frankly absurd. We are social primates after all, and if a robot that can mimic language is all it takes to change that, we would have fallen apart as a society long ago. I want to say AI used for creative purposes will ultimately end up as a fad - albeit one that stays in the spotlight a fair bit longer than it should, much like NFTs did - but it's just as likely they become a long-term problem like the many -isms and -phobias out there. The future is, after all, infamously unpredictable, and I'm not one to speculate on real-life unknowns like that.

I don't really have a satisfying bow to tie this post off with so uh... yeah.

Edited April 6 by yui

[LordCowCow 842]

So as for the "we'll be interacting with AI bots" thing...unlikely. Even if a bot gets so close to human speech as you're worried there will always be things it can't do. Plus even if bots become more frequent on social networks then people will simply move on. And once that happens the people in control will realize "oh I'm not making money actually" and it'll get cracked down on. AI can't take over because once it has "taken over" then the bigwigs on their golden thrones will notice their precious numbers decreasing and they can't have that. AI is self-defeating. Which brings me to humanity....

Do you know what would most likely make an "AI Takeover" possible? Freaking out too much about it. The more people panic the more people will start to think that it's pointless to make things ourselves. I see plenty of artists wanting to give up because of AI but the thing is....actual art usually gets more praise than AI regardless. Same for music and so on.

As long as there are people willing to keep creating and to do things without AI it can never take over and will eventually turn into a niche fad that people wave off.

Companies will start to lose money as less people are awed by the "cool new tech". Speak up about how AI creations suck and you don't want to pay for it sure but there's no reason to dive down into pessimism.

And now to be cheesy here's one of my favorite quotes.

“I believe that the human spirit is indomitable. If you endeavor to achieve, it will happen given enough resolve. It may not be immediate, and often your greater dreams are something you will not achieve within your own lifetime. The effort you put forth to anything transcends yourself, for there is no futility even in death.” - Monty Oum