Have you heard of the Dead Internet Theory? In 2021, IlluminatiPirate wrote the theory in which they claimed that already, or very soon, the majority of the internet will be just bots and autogenerated content. They claimed this was done by a few illuminati type mustache twirlers bent on controlling opinions, grooming political/society’s opinions, as well as generating customers for particular products.

While the latter part of the theory is pretty implausible and tinfoil hat, ColdFusion does some interesting investigation into the claims by looking at the actual data – and shows how quickly we are actually approaching many of these Black Mirror like claims. Many of which I have written about before.

He investigates current bot usage compared to actual users. While many people rolled their eyes when Elon Musk made these claims about Twitter, we’re increasingly seeing social media companies failing during fiduciary scrutiny when they go to sell themselves. It turns out many have massive amounts of fake users. A major unicorn app was outed for having 95% bots just this week. Facebook took down 5.4 billion fake accounts in 2019 alone – more than twice the number of REAL accounts.

He follows an experiment in which a experimenter uses off the shelf tools to create a fake influencer who posts AI generated social media posts, AI generated pictures of a completely AI generated photorealistic person, and starts picking up follows – many of which were bots themselves. Caren Marjorie created an GPT4 AI version of herself that would be your girlfriend.

The Atlantic did a research project on tweets that all contained repeated text by countless accounts while similar profile pictures with huge engagement levels above their normal levels of those account types. By 2025-2030, 90-95% of the content on the internet may be generated by bots if we continue at the current rates.

Jubilee put 6 humans and 1 AI into a chat room and they had to pick out the bot just by the answers to questions given to them all to answer. It took a lot of rounds before they all guess the AI correctly.

Maybe you’d like to try the famous Turing Test yourself and see if you can spot the bot? Google has a bot that has successfully passed the Turning test, and ChatGPT was the second.

Want to see how fast AI is progressing? Did you know chatGPT 4 is able to get 90th percentile on the Bar exam, solve complex logic problems, build complex apps and games, write books, or make money by founding and running a company for you? He doesn’t even capture all the things AI has been doing.

This is worth a watch if you want to see a smattering of what AI is already doing in 2023