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First surfacing in 2021, the “dead internet theory” is the idea that the future internet will be largely driven by autonomous ...

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman hinted that he's coming around to the dead internet theory in an early September post on X. His company ...

Recent reports suggest the dead internet theory could become a reality within the next three years, as AI‑generated content ...

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A new report released today by Thales SA had found that bot traffic now makes up nearly half of all internet traffic globally and that bad bots account for a significant number of those bots. The ...

The early internet was more than a playground—it was an accidental archive of humanity’s digital adolescence. Today, that archive is vanishing. Platforms delete old forums, purge “low-value” content, ...

But Altman's post raised another question for a lot of users — what is dead internet theory anyway?

A new report from IT security company Imperva indicates that COVID-19 helped give birth to a historic amount of nonhuman activity on the Internet. The report is based on global customer data from the ...

On August 31, a Weibo post by stand-up comedian Gao Han sparked a lively discussion in the comment section. Gao self-deprecatingly remarked about "complaining without reason," but was met with silence ...

If odd digital interpretations of classic movie posters and strangely sexual selfie photo collages on Instagram still haven’t convinced you of generative artificial intelligence’s merits, maybe saving ...

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