When will you "quit" the internet?
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AI generated content, which now includes incredibly convincing videos of people, will grow exponentially over the next weeks, months, and years.
At some point, the majority of the content you see will be fake, and any usefulness or connection to humans will be lost.
Even information that you might have previously been able to confirm from a trusted source can (and will) be manipulated in some way, making verification impossible.
This lack of verification, along with the speed at which fake content can now be generated, will make it impossible to defend against.
Even the world of art and communication has been tainted, serving no connection to real people through this digital hellscape.
To that end, when will the internet be so untrustworthy, “soulless”, and useless to you that it crosses the tipping point?
EDIT: Ok, holy fuck. There's actually a term for what I'm describing: "The Dead Internet Theory"
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AI generated content, which now includes incredibly convincing videos of people, will grow exponentially over the next weeks, months, and years.
At some point, the majority of the content you see will be fake, and any usefulness or connection to humans will be lost.
Even information that you might have previously been able to confirm from a trusted source can (and will) be manipulated in some way, making verification impossible.
This lack of verification, along with the speed at which fake content can now be generated, will make it impossible to defend against.
Even the world of art and communication has been tainted, serving no connection to real people through this digital hellscape.
To that end, when will the internet be so untrustworthy, “soulless”, and useless to you that it crosses the tipping point?
EDIT: Ok, holy fuck. There's actually a term for what I'm describing: "The Dead Internet Theory"
There's no quitting the internet for me. What I can do is take a break from the internet, as well as lower my usage time. But permanently quitting? No. I simply cannot.
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There's no quitting the internet for me. What I can do is take a break from the internet, as well as lower my usage time. But permanently quitting? No. I simply cannot.
So even if it was all just fake content, misinformation, bots, and ads that will never be able to filtered out, you'd continue using it the same?
For me, I'd have no incentive whatsoever to visit a site like Lemmy or check the news if there was a good chance it was just bots making stuff up to fill space. There would be no value at that point, so I'd at least quit that.
I don't think we'll ever fully quit the internet, as it's connected to everything we touch. But the internet as it was will continue to be enshittified until it becomes unbearable to use.
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So even if it was all just fake content, misinformation, bots, and ads that will never be able to filtered out, you'd continue using it the same?
For me, I'd have no incentive whatsoever to visit a site like Lemmy or check the news if there was a good chance it was just bots making stuff up to fill space. There would be no value at that point, so I'd at least quit that.
I don't think we'll ever fully quit the internet, as it's connected to everything we touch. But the internet as it was will continue to be enshittified until it becomes unbearable to use.
We can always fight those bots and misinformation, just like how we can always protest in real life.
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We can always fight those bots and misinformation, just like how we can always protest in real life.
I think it would be impossible to fight back when there will come a time when you won't even know what is real and what is not.
It would be impossible to filter through all the content that you'll be exposed to in the future.
We can obviously try, but the vast majority of the population simply won't have the skills to defend against this new reality.
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I think it would be impossible to fight back when there will come a time when you won't even know what is real and what is not.
It would be impossible to filter through all the content that you'll be exposed to in the future.
We can obviously try, but the vast majority of the population simply won't have the skills to defend against this new reality.
That is a good point.
