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   「Under Divine Flag」 (oceanredux@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 13-May-2023 21:38:17 JST 「Under Divine Flag」
   Wtf is dead internet theory?
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     Shaun Hale (shaunh@pleroma.nobodyhasthe.biz)'s status on Saturday, 13-May-2023 21:38:16 JST Shaun Hale

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     @OceanRedux Dead Internet Theory: None of you people are real. Everything is fake and gay and bot generated.
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     Zealist (zealist@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 13-May-2023 21:38:16 JST Zealist

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     @shaunh @OceanRedux youtube.com/watch?v=Vvfdc3cXnio
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     Zealist (zealist@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 13-May-2023 23:46:28 JST Zealist

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     @OceanRedux @shaunh @Publius2 @PunishedD todays sponser NORD VPN if you use my special code "ishitmypants" at checkout you get an amazing 2% off your first minute
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     「Under Divine Flag」 (oceanredux@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 13-May-2023 23:46:29 JST 「Under Divine Flag」

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     @shaunh @Publius2 @PunishedD yeah i dont remember the last time I saw an actual ad unless its like some guy like internethistorian doing a nordVPN ad meme
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     Shaun Hale (shaunh@pleroma.nobodyhasthe.biz)'s status on Saturday, 13-May-2023 23:46:30 JST Shaun Hale

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     @PunishedD @OceanRedux @Publius2 That just provoked an epiphany for me.
     
     I've been ad blocking for so long that unless someone consciously reminds me like you did I forget the internet has ads.
     
     Kind of feels like living in a parallel universe.
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     PunishedD (punishedd@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 13-May-2023 23:46:31 JST PunishedD

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     @Publius2 @shaunh @OceanRedux A lot of those types of blogs are link farms. They exist to fool the Google ranking algorithm into thinking they are real sites talking about things they care about, which boosts SEO.
     
     The text is generated to cover maximum amount of keywords. They used to be written by Indians for $0.50 per article, you could find ads requesting such articles on every freelance site. Probably generated by ChatGPT now, poor pajeets got upgraded out of a job.
     
     The links will be to other "blogs" owned by the same person, or to an affiliate link on Amazon which gets them a 10% referral bonus. String enough blogs together in a network, and Google boosts them to the top of searches.
     
     It's a precursor to Dead Internet Theory, in a way. When the entire first page of search results, the most valuable real estate on the Internet, is occupied by fake sites, it's easy to think no human is actually posting any more.
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     Publius (publius2@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 13-May-2023 23:46:33 JST Publius

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     @shaunh @OceanRedux @PunishedD Content like that is easily AI generated but is not really what I was considering a botnet. I was talking more about social media or comment section activity in real time on the major platforms. The simulation of live internet activity.
     
     Yes, I'm sure for years there have been tools to generate blog posts or news articles. ChatGPT is now that capability totally opened up to the public.
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     「Under Divine Flag」 (oceanredux@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 13-May-2023 23:46:35 JST 「Under Divine Flag」

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     @PunishedD @shaunh so essentially the internet used to be human driven or some shit and now bots have taken over? where did all the humans who used 2 be on the internet go? I wonder how many accounts of dead people there are on the internet lol 🤔
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     Publius (publius2@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 13-May-2023 23:46:35 JST Publius

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     @OceanRedux @PunishedD @shaunh Bot networks are written to amplify either corporate advertising schlock or judeo-libtard political narratives (because that's who has the money to create massive botnets) so real people end up disengaging with the internet entirely or accepting sequestering into marginal internet ghettos (like the Fediverse).
     
     There used to be parsing tools that could look at social media activity and reliably tell you whether a poster was a human or a bot. I worked with such a tool for Twitter activity. But, after 2020 the AI generated content from bots began rapidly improving and posts by actual libtard or product enjoyers became more and more programmatic and it is now extremely difficult to tell them apart.
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     Shaun Hale (shaunh@pleroma.nobodyhasthe.biz)'s status on Saturday, 13-May-2023 23:46:35 JST Shaun Hale

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     @Publius2 @OceanRedux @PunishedD >Bot networks are written to amplify either corporate advertising schlock or judeo-libtard political narratives
     
     There's more too it than that because, while I don't have any specific links handy, I've seen web sites full of non-advertising, non-political content which I am certain were not human generated.
     
     The last time I remember this I was researching public campgrounds and hiking trails in Alaska and came across some sites purporting to be blogs written by real people whose prose landed squarely in the uncanny valley.
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     「Under Divine Flag」 (oceanredux@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 13-May-2023 23:46:36 JST 「Under Divine Flag」

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     @shaunh How likely is this to actually be real....how the fuck is that even possible considering how connected everyone is lol
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     PunishedD (punishedd@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 13-May-2023 23:46:36 JST PunishedD

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     @OceanRedux @shaunh You only really know a tiny number of people. You might recognize a lot more, but not well enough to say if they're bots.
     
     Dead Internet Theory is more about the large platforms with easy access, than small ones that take some effort for individuals to join and maintain. Because even the small, real platforms tend to die out, suggesting the large ones with bot content and conversations are the bulk of the Internet.
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     Shaun Hale (shaunh@pleroma.nobodyhasthe.biz)'s status on Saturday, 13-May-2023 23:46:37 JST Shaun Hale

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     @OceanRedux The most coherent versions of the theory posit a sharp drop off in organic human-generated content for various reasons at a certain point in recent history which large corporate interests are hiding with bot farms to make the internet look less like a ghost town than it really is, also for their own various reasons.
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     「Under Divine Flag」 (oceanredux@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 13-May-2023 23:46:38 JST 「Under Divine Flag」

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     @shaunh Every video on it is like 20 minutes long and Im not reading the wiki page. So, like, the entire internet is fake or bots? Is that a metaphor or something
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     「Under Divine Flag」 (oceanredux@poa.st)'s status on Sunday, 14-May-2023 00:07:59 JST 「Under Divine Flag」

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     @natsock @shaunh @Publius2 @PunishedD The internet would be fucking unbearable without ad blockers tbh
     Seahorses are horses likes this.
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     NatSock (natsock@pleroma.nobodyhasthe.biz)'s status on Sunday, 14-May-2023 00:08:00 JST NatSock

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     @shaunh @PunishedD @OceanRedux @Publius2
     If I ever get into a weird state where ads are not blocked, it’s shocking how horrible it is to use a computer, and also how much time normies are staring at a black face.