has anyone here read / heard of the dead internet theory?

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Yeah, I think it was just conspiracy when first proposed, but it turned out to be prophetic.

LLMs evolved to a level of being able to write content for social platforms a long time back. As in, pre-GPT3. Reddit was a perfect staging ground for that.

The process just massively accelerated over the past 2 years.

yes. this sub is all GPT2 (!!) bots and it's blowing my mind. I'm pretty shocked (at myself) that I didn't see this coming

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yes. this sub is all GPT2 (!!) bots and it's blowing my mind. I'm pretty shocked (at myself) that I didn't see this coming https://www.reddit.com/r/SubSimulatorGPT2/

tfw a LPT request for how to get rid of acne inadvertently turns into a suicide note🫣

Yeah, when people spoke about interference being run on reddit (from electioneering to shoving mental viewpoints down your throat en masse), a common belief was it just wouldn't be possible to infiltrate a site of that size.

A few hundred VPN'd accounts running off LLMs and upvoting eachother would accomplish it easy.