‘Dead internet theory’ gains ground amid rise of AI-generated content

https://english.elpais.com/technology/2025-09-20/dead-internet-theory-gains-ground-amid-rise-of-ai-generated-content.html

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nothingcorporate@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 334d

The theory wasn't wrong, it was just early.

evenglow@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 334d (7 replies)

ASL is going to make a come back only this time it's going to be weird.

wetsoggybread@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 334d (4 replies)

ASL? American sign language?

Carvex@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 334d (1 reply)

The only thing AI can’t produce reliably is fingers, so sign language will be the only way to prove you’re human on video soon.

Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 334d

AI went from being consistently incapable of making fingers at all to consistently making them very well in an incredibly short amount of time. So I'm not sure that even ASL would convince me 100% that a video is real

errer@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 334d

A/S/L?

lolrightythen@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 334d

Guessing AOL

P1nkman@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 334d

Asl? 15, girl, LA here.

::: spoiler Tap for spoiler I swear that I am not a male in his 40's. Pinky swear! :::

dickalan@lemmy.world · -1 pts · 334d

Bro, why are you fucking lying that used to be a problem, it really isn’t anymore

MrTrono@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 334d (5 replies)

Why are we still calling this a theory? Should we not just call it an axiom as it is obviously true?

Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 334d (1 reply)
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FarraigePlaisteach@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 334d

TIL. Thanks for directing me down that helpful rabbit hole.

Psythik@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 334d (2 replies)

Because you're human, right? So am I. The internet isn't completely dead yet if random strangers are still able to find each other and communicate.

NotBillMurray@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 334d (1 reply)

I too am a human, with hair and skin and everything!

flightyhobler@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 333d

Hello fellow human. I am looking for other humans like myself to do human things. If you tell me your address, I can use my human legs to go and meet you and we can have some liquid or solid nourishment via the mouth intake.

Stamets@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 334d (9 replies)
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Salamanderwizard@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 334d (1 reply)

Well whoever the fuck is running it, can they stop with adding these evil hateful folks?

TallonMetroid@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 334d

Sure would have been nice to have been the control timeline, rather than the one infected with everything to watch how it dies (hint: painfully).

1D10@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 334d

You can't really prove that you aren't a man who got hit by a car and has spent the last 3 weeks in a coma, and everything you have experienced since birth is nothing more then your brain trying to unscramble itself....

In fact....

John can you hear us? We are all here for you.

No, Doctor, he opened his eyes it was just for a second but I saw his eyes.

Please John wake up.

maurice314@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 334d

Looking at the current state of the world, I can't even disagree.

TootSweet@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 334d (4 replies)

This is a complete tangent unrelated to the OP, but...

The problem I have with simulation theory is that it feels like it stops short of its own logical conclusion. Like, clearly there's no experiment you can do to something "concrete" like a coffee mug or a mountain to prove it's not made of abstract stuff (like numbers, algorithms, data, whatever). That bit's nearly self-evident at this point in history. But then simulation theory people still seem to believe that there must be a "real world" made of concrete matter. It seems to me more likely that there's no such thing as "truly concrete". It's turtles numbers/algorithms/data/math/whatever all the way down.

Stamets@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 334d (2 replies)
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RecursiveParadox@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 334d

You would probably dig Ian M Banks' The Hydrogen Sonata. There's a long passage where a very smart entity thinks about at what level a simulation would be unethical to terminate.

Cybersteel@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 333d

We're merely 2D objects projected into a 3D holograms.

Cybersteel@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 333d

You can buy destroying the simulation.

SGGeorwell@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 334d

It’s like a Star Gate for shit. Sam Altman has opened up a gigantic anus that spews forth a never ending supply of shit. It’s just a ceaseless shit hole for the ages. A grand accomplishment.

Bennyboybumberchums@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 334d