The Internet Will Be More Dead Than Alive Within 3 Years, Trend Shows | All signs point to a future internet where bot-driven interactions far outnumber human ones.

is that not already true ?

For now, Reddit has been quite good at preserving its humanity. It’s a universally acknowledged truth that adding “reddit” to a Google search finds an island of human-provided information among all the ads, AI slop and scams.

I feel like 75 percent of twitter is already this.

Will it though? With all the age verification?

We are there already. Hell there are a large amount of people posting who might as well be considered bots, even if theyre technically real people. They just parrot whatever nonsense they hear in their little echo chambers on social media. They havent had a thought of their own in years.

We need captcha 3.0 already. Run a site as unbottable as possible.

A hopeful part of me wants to believe that the next generation will not participate in social media in the future because the internet will cease to be a social environment with actual humans interacting. It’ll just be an unabashed AI zone of artificial content.

And while so much of the internet today is already bot driven, I believe we’re all still here because we got started before things died and we don’t know how else to live.

While the article sheds light on valid concerns regarding the dominance of AI and bots online, you have to approach the “Dead Internet Theory” with a balanced view. The internet is vast and multifaceted, and while automation is on the rise, human-driven content creation and consumption remain quintessential. We’ll adapt to and overcome this issue eventually.

Trends don’t account for intervention or social/cultural/technological responses to those trends.

There are already far too many bots, and tech firms are responding by creating AI detection, behavioural analysys, MFA and CAPTCHA, rate limiting etc – and we’re developing new tools to identify and deal with Bots and spam accounts.

Beyond that, people are being driven away from sites where bots are prevalent – X saw millions of people leaving due to the toxicity, spam and misinformation injected by bots, when nothing was being done about it. X rolled out detection measures, but they weren’t consistent, and people are still leaving due to the lack of quality there.

Other companies have been more aggressive in removing bots and spam, protecting both users and advertisers, which has helped maintain loyalty in their user base.

It’s only a matter of time before we’ve worked our way past these issues. Hyperbole in article titles will be a thing of the past eventually, too.

Dead internet theory has been true for decades https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Internet_theory

The Internet will turn into walled gardens and gated communities hidden behind paywalls, subscription, and ID verifications.

It’s the newest propaganda strategy. Fake news. Fake chats. Fake profiles. Fake people. Creates this “everyone know/is doing it” *reality*.

I mean digg collapsed when it tried to go super corporate. Reddit, google, facebook, and twitter didn’t, so the next logical outcome now is they just destroy the internet and make it into the entirely fake ad space they always wanted. Then humanity leaves and finds something more functional to do, because interacting with the Dante’s Inferno of advertising and propaganda is actually incredibly dull.

Honestly, it already feels like half the internet is just bots talking to other bots. The scary part isn’t the internet dying it’s humans adapting to a digital world where ‘authentic’ interaction becomes the rarest commodity. Do you think regulations can even keep up with this, or are we basically headed for a bot-dominated internet no matter what?

Its time for a human subnet. No bots allowed.

So what if we just we reject the internet and we start going offline and doing analog activities and basically just living normal lives that people had before the internet?

As long as enterprises still believe that their ads are seen by real people, it wont change, bot are the things that generates user count and interactions in almost any service in the internet, that’s how they profit, they profit from bots