Sam Altman thinks the “dead internet theory” is coming true
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, creator of the most popular AI chatbot on Earth, says he’s starting to worry that “dead internet theory” is coming true.
“I never took the dead internet theory that seriously,” Altman tweeted in his typical all-lowercase style, “but it seems like there are really a lot of LLM-run twitter accounts now.” (LLM meaning large language model, the tech which powers AI chatbots.)
The “dead internet theory” is a half-prophetic conspiracy that suggests that effectively the entire internet has been taken over by AI models and other autonomous machines. The vast majority of the posts and profiles you see, the theory holds, are just bots. In fact, you’re barely interacting with humans at all — everything you access online is just a machine-maintained illusion, almost like “The Matrix.”
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If it ever feels like that on OddsRabbit, then we’ve done something very wrong
If you are not a bot post random jiberiish once a week.
Glad to see you didn't go the route of making a bunch of bots to fake activity. It's hard to build a community organically.
Thanks! Yea, it's been hard hahaha, but we're slowly getting there.
There are enough other bots on other platforms lol, don't see the point in it. Higher quality curated posts > Lots of low quality bot posts imo
I often see photos of Altman gazing heavenwards with the expression of a tormented saint from a Renaissance painting. What a burden it must be for him to have to mingle with the common plebs such as we. We should embrace our time with him as it won't last forever. One day we will be bereft of his insights into the soul of our technological society.