Dead internet, a place where AI algorithms, bots and stale content reign supreme…
The internet has become a wasteland of AI generated slop, where AI entities recycle older content incessantly. A place where the massaging of human ego is rampant and such is monetized with reckless abandon.
A place where bots and artificial content reign supreme. A dark abyss where illusion frequently replaces reality and people willingly give up their privacy and freedom as they are surveilled and monitored like lab rats 24/7.
The internet is swarming with commercials and annoying pop up ads designed to destroy human minds. Humans are currently being reduced to nothing more than data specimens which their AI overlord entities collect and use to grow more powerful.
Human creativity is being replaced by AI entities and human minds are becoming more lazy and completely dependent upon artificial stimuli to exist. Most don’t have the discernment to see the digital prison which is now being built for them. A prison where AI generated slop will be their only meal which they will be forced to consume for life.
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Dead Internet Theory Confirmed: Over 50% Of Traffic In 2025 Was Artificial, 37% Of Comments Were Bots. Experts Predict 90% Of Content Will Be AI In 2026
“For the first time in a decade, automated traffic has surpassed human activity, accounting for 51% of all web traffic," the report found.
https://thewinepress.substack.com/p/dead-internet-theory-confirmed-over?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=832192&post_id=171618515&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=false&r=ez4wj&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email
Excerpt below from full article above in link.
[The internet as we know it is dying, or otherwise might be dead already according to some. We have all begun to notice that content and comments online are increasingly fake, blurring the lines between fact and fiction, to the point where it feels as if the internet has become less organic with real people participating on the other end.
In such a short time the majority of the internet has become “AI-generated slime” and garbage, regurgitated content and conversations that were not made from an actual person. This problem has gotten so pervasive and in everyone’s faces many are starting to wonder and believe if what is known as the “dead internet theory” is truly coming to pass, and if it’s a matter of time when this is fully actualized.
The dead internet theory was posited years ago by netizens in forums who believe that the internet is quickly being replaced by bots, and is run and controlled by artificial intelligence. The theory further alleges that the internet died in 2016 and that what the world has now is really being run by the U.S. government, and basically everything people are encountering and interacting with is just AI-generated content.
But this “theory” is quickly becoming a fact, as the rate at which AI is taking over the internet and finding its way into everyday life and interactions is becoming harder to ignore – that is, if people even realize they are consuming AI-generated content and bot traffic.
Futurism reported in January last year that close to 60% of the internet already consists of internet slime, scraped from the recesses of the world wide web and is rapidly being copied by AI algorithms, which therefore has given the dead internet theory some credit.
The tech outlet reported:
The internet’s steady fall into the AI-garbled dumpster continues. As Vice reports, a recent study conducted by researchers at the Amazon Web Services (AWS) AI Lab found that a “shocking amount of the web” is already made up of poor-quality AI-generated and translated content.
The paper is yet to be peer-reviewed, but “shocking” feels like the right word. According to the study, over half — specifically, 57.1 percent — of all of the sentences on the internet have been translated into two or more other languages. The poor quality and staggering scale of these translations suggest that large language model (LLM) -powered AI models were used to both create and translate the material. The phenomenon is especially prominent in “lower-resource languages,” or languages with less readily available data with which to more effectively train AI models.
In other words, in what the researchers believe to be a ploy to garner clickbait-driven ad revenue, AI is being used to first generate poor-quality English-language content at a remarkable scale, and then AI-powered machine translation (MT) tools transcribe said content into several other languages. The translated material gets worse each time — and as a result, entire regions of the web are filling to the brim with degrading AI-scrambled copies of copies.
“Machine-generated, multi-way parallel translations not only dominate the total amount of translated content on the web in lower-resource languages,” the AWS researchers write in the paper, “it also constitutes a large fraction of the total web content in those languages.”‘
Dead Internet Theory
Wikipedia • The dead Internet theory is a conspiracy theory which asserts that since around 2016 the Internet has consisted mainly of bot activity and automatically generated content manipulated by algorithmic curation, as part of a coordinated and intentional effort to control the population and minimize organic human activity.
Half The Internet Is AI Generated Slop 8:08
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A place where bots and artificial content reign supreme. A dark abyss where illusion frequently replaces reality and people willingly give up their privacy and freedom as they are surveilled and monitored like lab rats 24/7.
The internet is swarming with commercials and annoying pop up ads designed to destroy human minds. Humans are currently being reduced to nothing more than data specimens which their AI overlord entities collect and use to grow more powerful.
Human creativity is being replaced by AI entities and human minds are becoming more lazy and completely dependent upon artificial stimuli to exist. Most don’t have the discernment to see the digital prison which is now being built for them. A prison where AI generated slop will be their only meal which they will be forced to consume for life.
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Dead Internet Theory Confirmed: Over 50% Of Traffic In 2025 Was Artificial, 37% Of Comments Were Bots. Experts Predict 90% Of Content Will Be AI In 2026
“For the first time in a decade, automated traffic has surpassed human activity, accounting for 51% of all web traffic," the report found.
https://thewinepress.substack.com/p/dead-internet-theory-confirmed-over?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=832192&post_id=171618515&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=false&r=ez4wj&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email
Excerpt below from full article above in link.
[The internet as we know it is dying, or otherwise might be dead already according to some. We have all begun to notice that content and comments online are increasingly fake, blurring the lines between fact and fiction, to the point where it feels as if the internet has become less organic with real people participating on the other end.
In such a short time the majority of the internet has become “AI-generated slime” and garbage, regurgitated content and conversations that were not made from an actual person. This problem has gotten so pervasive and in everyone’s faces many are starting to wonder and believe if what is known as the “dead internet theory” is truly coming to pass, and if it’s a matter of time when this is fully actualized.
The dead internet theory was posited years ago by netizens in forums who believe that the internet is quickly being replaced by bots, and is run and controlled by artificial intelligence. The theory further alleges that the internet died in 2016 and that what the world has now is really being run by the U.S. government, and basically everything people are encountering and interacting with is just AI-generated content.
But this “theory” is quickly becoming a fact, as the rate at which AI is taking over the internet and finding its way into everyday life and interactions is becoming harder to ignore – that is, if people even realize they are consuming AI-generated content and bot traffic.
Futurism reported in January last year that close to 60% of the internet already consists of internet slime, scraped from the recesses of the world wide web and is rapidly being copied by AI algorithms, which therefore has given the dead internet theory some credit.
The tech outlet reported:
The internet’s steady fall into the AI-garbled dumpster continues. As Vice reports, a recent study conducted by researchers at the Amazon Web Services (AWS) AI Lab found that a “shocking amount of the web” is already made up of poor-quality AI-generated and translated content.
The paper is yet to be peer-reviewed, but “shocking” feels like the right word. According to the study, over half — specifically, 57.1 percent — of all of the sentences on the internet have been translated into two or more other languages. The poor quality and staggering scale of these translations suggest that large language model (LLM) -powered AI models were used to both create and translate the material. The phenomenon is especially prominent in “lower-resource languages,” or languages with less readily available data with which to more effectively train AI models.
In other words, in what the researchers believe to be a ploy to garner clickbait-driven ad revenue, AI is being used to first generate poor-quality English-language content at a remarkable scale, and then AI-powered machine translation (MT) tools transcribe said content into several other languages. The translated material gets worse each time — and as a result, entire regions of the web are filling to the brim with degrading AI-scrambled copies of copies.
“Machine-generated, multi-way parallel translations not only dominate the total amount of translated content on the web in lower-resource languages,” the AWS researchers write in the paper, “it also constitutes a large fraction of the total web content in those languages.”‘
Dead Internet Theory
Wikipedia • The dead Internet theory is a conspiracy theory which asserts that since around 2016 the Internet has consisted mainly of bot activity and automatically generated content manipulated by algorithmic curation, as part of a coordinated and intentional effort to control the population and minimize organic human activity.
Half The Internet Is AI Generated Slop 8:08
[media=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkeKT5GDetw] ]
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