The Internet is Dying: AI, Bots, and The End of Human Content

The internet was once a vast digital frontier of endless human created content. The World Wide Web connected us, until corporations decided their profit margins mattered more than Tim Berners-Lee's vision of an open web. Now we're trapped on the same few websites, force fed algorithmic content and AI generated slop. Anonymous users predicted this years ago with what they called Dead Internet Theory. From bot armies manipulating conversations to AI generated content flooding every platform, the internet we once knew is disappearing.

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Chapters:
00:00 Intro
01:00 Dead Internet Theory
02:01 More Bots on the Internet than Humans
02:43 YouTube Bots
03:04 Bot Networks
03:40 TikTok Bots
04:07 Reddit Bots
05:21 X Bots
05:56 Meta AI Companion Bots
07:25 Facebook’s Farmville and Algorithms
08:46 Platforms as Walled Gardens
09:58 AI Slop is Taking Over
10:40 YouTube AI Generated Content
11:09 TikTok AI Generated Content
11:30 LinkedIn AI Generated Content
11:41 AI Generated Vogue Models
11:52 Dating Apps Using AI
12:45 Academia and AI
12:56 TikTok Bots Stealing YouTube Content
13:15 The Decline of Google Search
13:35 Google’s AI Overview
15:24 People Using ChatGPT As A Search Engine
15:58 Why Corporations Want A Dead Internet
17:54 What Happens When the Internet Dies?