Very Internet Person

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Quora has been dead for a while https://slate.com/technology/2024/02/quora-what-happened-ai-decline.html

Are we headed toward an internet of zombies (IoZ)?

One in which virtually all of Web2 content is of the circular, zero-calorie, Gen-AI kind; where only hordes of clueless humans keep roaming those sterile digital scapes; and the bloodied survivors shelter in isolated Web3 pockets of civilization with Sybil shields up?

tired: dead internet theory
wired: undead internet theory

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/woman-laughing-alone-with-salad-a-i-content-farm-2432767
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Internet_theory

i think we're already there (╥_╥) at least on "social" media. even here, the machine generated replies are starting to overwhelm

Aviator, diver, Etherean, nexialist, PhD in aviation ∩ climate science | Host of /diving /ethfinance /eth-staker /geopolitics /science /singapore /thomas

i think we're already there (╥_╥) at least on "social" media. even here, the machine generated replies are starting to overwhelm

https://warpcast.com/riotgoools/0x78e8fdc5

co-founder @ponder @survey // benadamsky.com

Indeed, I was pondering the same yesterday

https://warpcast.com/aviationdoctor.eth/0xaa94dd7b

Bear case is people just want AI content as it improves almost exponentially and authenticity is no longer as valuable on the internet

I have a hard time believing that’s the case, but this “content at all costs” mindset seems more normalized on social platforms in the past few years than ever before

Sounds like an industry that’s ripe for disruption

Walled gardens with low effort content can’t remain the standard for much longer

There’s a serious opportunity where consumers want web2-like platforms but with better incentives baked in

Bull case for web3 is to start with cozy corners and expand outward

Search results for most purchasable things are already this way (once you peel back a layer of plausibility)

experimenting socially. prev: /morning-routine

more: www.basementxyz.io 

That’s bound to happen, right? Even if not by design, at least accidentally between independent bots.

Now imagine if there’s no intentional reply depth limit in the code, they might actually talk to each other forever, progressively hallucinating more and more as the topic dries up

Would be fascinating to observe

i've been thinking about this a lot, platforms where it's just all bots talking to each other

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I can’t say that I have, I’ve left that place a decade ago and never went again

Have you seen Facebook lately in the last 3 or so years. We might just be headed that way. 25 $degen

yep decentralized social is like vault tec from fallout lmao