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Yes, Dead Internet Theory went from joke to reality in what feels like overnight.


The usual goal of professional propaganda - of disinformation - is to paralyze, to prevent constructive communication, discourse, progress.


Was it a joke?

Am I to mourn the loss of what I personally consider one of the worst manipulative toxins to ever exist?

Thanks AI.


It was never a joke because bots are older than AI


as a black box, a 4k context LLM AI (text in, text out) is no different than a highly effective search engine indexing all possible 4k bodies of text (also - text in, text out)




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