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Posted by skwee357 1 day ago

Dead Internet Theory(kudmitry.com)
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chickensong 13 hours ago|
While I trust the author had good intentions, this blog post is about HN and some common themes and emotions, which was then posted to HN, resulting in more of the same.

There may be some irony to be found in this human centipede.

swader999 23 hours ago||
I think the Internet died long before 2016. It started with the profile, learning about the users, giving them back what they wanted. Then advertising amplified it. 1998 or 99 I'm guessing.
ForgotMyUUID 10 hours ago||
Well, if you are not satisfied by our company of AI karma-farmers, you are welcome to join "The Diamond Mine" BBS :)
crumpled 9 hours ago|
Maybe I just will...
numeromancer 13 hours ago||
"photos of giants that built the pyramids in Egypt, all the way to short videos of pretty girls saying that the EU is bad for Poland."

Those sound funny; why would they make you sad?

embedding-shape 12 hours ago|
Because of the intention and purpose of those, not because of the actual pixels your brain interprets.
swyx 18 hours ago||
semi relatedly i stumbled upon Dead Planet Theory a while back and it stasy rent free in my head. https://arealsociety.substack.com/p/the-dead-planet-theory
sph 17 hours ago|
That's great, thanks for sharing. So obvious in hindsight (Pareto principle, power law, "80% of success is showing up") but the ramifications are enormous.

I wonder if this does apply to the same magnitude in the real world. It's very easy to see this phenomenon on the internet because it's so vast and interconnected. Attention is very limited and there is so much stuff out there that the average user can only offer minimal attention and effort (the usual 80-20 Pareto allocation). In the real world things are more granular, hyperlocal and less homogeneous.

nilslindemann 16 hours ago||
My answer to this blogpost is this: https://share.google/aimode/nrO2drR4YsCNKr1f9
nilslindemann 16 hours ago|
That said, there need to be some new laws regarding miserable people using AI in a miserable way, like, claiming something real happened that never did, just to get attention and money. Also, the fact that AI is used has to be documented, so that people consuming it have a choice.
grugagag 11 hours ago||
AI content including youtube videos, podcasta and such need a stamp that content was AI generated.
ex3ndr 1 day ago||
I am curious when we will land dead github theory? I am looking at growing of self hosted projects and it seems many of them are simply AI slop now or slowly moving there.
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