Generative AI is accelerating the changes to online spaces that are often dubbed the “Dead Internet Theory”, in part because using it to communicate or create is becoming more and more common. The explicit disclosure of the use of AI is ultimately voluntary, a fact used by many to alter how they are perceived in conversations or how their artwork is received.
Rather than an internet full of mindless bots, I see a future where shame and insecurity lead many to alter the way they communicate online through AI the same way we take on a custom avatar in an online game. In other words, a world where having an authentic human voice is undesirable.
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For me it just feels like another medium for thinking, not a replacement for it.
You could have ended that title after “human interaction”.
To be fair, humans were corrupting human interaction long before AI was.
If only there were a way to tell that it’s generated by AI… hmmm