Comment on Humans share the web equally with bots, report warns amid fears of ‘dead internet’
TheOneWithTheHair@lemmy.world 1 month agoBots are increasing. But the Internet is not dead/dying, just changing. Many of the “The 10 bots are posting a total of 1000 times a day.” are repost bots merely parroting human generated content.
I wonder, though, if this will cause the scrapers to be impacted by the reposters or other AI generated content.
SuperSaiyanSwag@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
You’re taking the word “dying” too literally
TheOneWithTheHair@lemmy.world 1 month ago
So change means “dying”? So every time a tadpole evolves into a frog, a tadpole dies? Should we have protest signs that read, “DEATH TO ALL FROGS!”?
SuperSaiyanSwag@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
No, that is not what I was talking about. In the current environment it is completely possible for some people to only have interactions with bots online, without even knowing. This may get worse and worse in the future. THAT is what “dead” internet implies, lifeless online interactions essentially.
TheOneWithTheHair@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I suspect there will still be online interactions with humans, just more interactions with bots. Unfortunately, it’s the humans behind the mess. Even if we pass laws to stop it (or even forced labels of “I’m a bot” on bot accounts), some people won’t play by the rules. So the change is going to happen. We can try to persuade the public, but we know how well that works:
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blusterydayve26@midwest.social 1 month ago
But what if I wanted to communicate with humans instead of propaganda-bots? Then yes, that Internet is dead, and there’s no real fucking reason to be on most of those sites.