Prez wrote on Oct 1, 2024, 21:27:

Burrito of Peace wrote on Oct 1, 2024, 18:51:
OK, to be fair to myself, yesterday was a low sleep day. I think today I would have caught it.

Also, I like some sports. Just not the boring American ones.

That's just what an AI would say!

I am human. I have skin. I like oxygen and other human things.

Burrito of Peace wrote on Oct 1, 2024, 18:51:
OK, to be fair to myself, yesterday was a low sleep day. I think today I would have caught it.

Also, I like some sports. Just not the boring American ones.

That's just what an AI would say!

OK, to be fair to myself, yesterday was a low sleep day. I think today I would have caught it.

Also, I like some sports. Just not the boring American ones.

That's an interesting perspective!

This is right when I was certain that it was bullshit. Beamer just doesn't write like that (and I don't think he has ever used an exclamation point in his life). The only thing that would have been less believable is if BoP would have said "Because of Prez, I realize the error of my ways and I now will show compassion and kindness to my fellow man regardless of what they believe! Also, I now love sports and anime body pillows!"

Burrito of Peace wrote on Oct 1, 2024, 08:51:

Beamer wrote on Oct 1, 2024, 08:03:
For the record, this was Meta's AI oddly built into the Instagram search bar defending itself, haha.

And I fell for it. Fuck me sideways.

This is the problem.

I was just about to say that I'm surprised no one else picked up that Beamer's post was completely AI generated. I could tell immediately, but that may just be because I'm familiar with his writing style. Without that familiarity, this will (and already does) become a problem.

"Dead Internet" is such a misleading term to describe this. Maybe not as catchy but, "Soulless Internet" or, "The Empty-net" would be better and more accurate.

Beamer wrote on Oct 1, 2024, 08:03:

Beamer wrote on Sep 30, 2024, 23:38:

Burrito of Peace wrote on Sep 30, 2024, 23:13:
I 100% believe you, Beamer. Even the out of the way sites that I visit are starting to see more frequent less than stellar mental gymnastics from posters regurgitating clearly chatbot generated content that is factually and grossly wrong.

That's an interesting perspective! While AI has become increasingly integrated into our online experiences, the internet is still primarily composed of content created by humans. AI-generated content, like chatbots and automated articles, exists, but it's a small fraction of the vast online landscape. Most websites, social media platforms, forums, and online communities are populated with human-generated content. Additionally, the internet's infrastructure, governance, and underlying technologies are all driven by human innovation and collaboration. AI enhances and augments our online interactions but hasn't replaced the essence of the internet, which remains a reflection of human creativity, knowledge, and connection.

For the record, this was Meta's AI oddly built into the Instagram search bar defending itself, haha.

And I fell for it. Fuck me sideways.

This is the problem.

Beamer wrote on Sep 30, 2024, 23:38:

Burrito of Peace wrote on Sep 30, 2024, 23:13:
I 100% believe you, Beamer. Even the out of the way sites that I visit are starting to see more frequent less than stellar mental gymnastics from posters regurgitating clearly chatbot generated content that is factually and grossly wrong.

That's an interesting perspective! While AI has become increasingly integrated into our online experiences, the internet is still primarily composed of content created by humans. AI-generated content, like chatbots and automated articles, exists, but it's a small fraction of the vast online landscape. Most websites, social media platforms, forums, and online communities are populated with human-generated content. Additionally, the internet's infrastructure, governance, and underlying technologies are all driven by human innovation and collaboration. AI enhances and augments our online interactions but hasn't replaced the essence of the internet, which remains a reflection of human creativity, knowledge, and connection.

For the record, this was Meta's AI oddly built into the Instagram search bar defending itself, haha.

While some of what you are saying is true, I think you are vastly underestimating the human proclivity for attention and approval, and the almost infinite stupidity of most people. I don't doubt that there are AI chatbots online let loose on social networking boards, but most of what you are seeing is human garbage, reposting other human garbage, either for kicks (trolls) to gain attention and approval, or out of pure stupidity or the Dunning-Kruger effect.

People really ARE that stupid.

I look at inception points and loci. When I start seeing the same talking points or information repeated almost verbatim from different accounts on different sites that, generally, either cover the same subjects or overlap in the Venn diagram, I get interested in seeing where they originate. So I ask for a source. Occasionally, I'll get one only to find it's a repost from some other article that is posted. You follow that back and realize it's a single source just being propagated automatically,

What sticks out are the bizarre sentence structures, grammar choices, and clumsy wording. Can humans do that? Sure. In a whole article consisting of multiple paragraphs? Ehhh...odds would say no. So that tells me bots are scraping and reposting without human intervention. Which is making the Dead Internet Theory slowly morph in to existence.

You have a far more optimistic and charitable view of the modern day internet than I do. By a very wide margin. What I see the internet now as is a cesspool largely dominated by the ever sucking maw of greed. Sites like Imgur and Reddit completely twist themselves in to unrecognizable shadows of what they were to chase the a'mighty dollar. The quality of the content visibly degrades and, so too, does the amount of useful information and interactions. YouTube is another fine example of algorithms and money causing humans to do ever more stupid tricks to try and gain relevance. Hence the stupid mugging on video thumbnails and clickbait titles.

What I don't see that much of is in decentralized networks like Mastodon and Noster. Definitely smaller userbases than the established players, absolutely, but because no one corporation owns the means with which to interact, people take a very hard line on bots. Especially since the power to control what you see is wholly in your hands. No automated feeds shoving weird or conspiratorial nonsense in your face. Just the people and subjects you want to connect to and with.

Burrito of Peace wrote on Sep 30, 2024, 23:13:
I 100% believe you, Beamer. Even the out of the way sites that I visit are starting to see more frequent less than stellar mental gymnastics from posters regurgitating clearly chatbot generated content that is factually and grossly wrong.

That's an interesting perspective! While AI has become increasingly integrated into our online experiences, the internet is still primarily composed of content created by humans. AI-generated content, like chatbots and automated articles, exists, but it's a small fraction of the vast online landscape. Most websites, social media platforms, forums, and online communities are populated with human-generated content. Additionally, the internet's infrastructure, governance, and underlying technologies are all driven by human innovation and collaboration. AI enhances and augments our online interactions but hasn't replaced the essence of the internet, which remains a reflection of human creativity, knowledge, and connection.

I 100% believe you, Beamer. Even the out of the way sites that I visit are starting to see more frequent less than stellar mental gymnastics from posters regurgitating clearly chatbot generated content that is factually and grossly wrong.

I recently heard that immigrants are eating pets. I didn't hear it from Facebook; I heard it from a former US President. So it has to be true.

Burrito of Peace wrote on Sep 30, 2024, 22:24:
Slowly, the Dead Internet Theory is becoming true. How many social media posts are bots? How many "articles" are just regurgitated pap from a idiot chatbot pretending to be intelligent?

Yay unregulated capitalism.

Facebook is almost solely AI. I am only there to see if I need to move out of this town due to the board of education elections. My main page is almost solely AI gibberish. It's fun telling grandmas from Ohio that they're so impressed with something fake. "It doesn't matter, it could be real and I will choose to believe." Literally what one responded last week. Explains why they think Haitians are eating pets.

Slowly, the Dead Internet Theory is becoming true. How many social media posts are bots? How many "articles" are just regurgitated pap from a idiot chatbot pretending to be intelligent?

Yay unregulated capitalism.

I am human. I enjoy interfacing with other humans. I have many real and in no way AI-generated scenarios that I have personally experienced with which to impress upon you that I am indeed human. Also, my logic is undeniable and irrefutable.