The ‘Dead Internet Theory’ No Longer A ‘Conspiracy’ At All – META, Instagram To Allow AI Generated ‘Users’ With Bios, Profile Pics, Sharing Content To Spread Propaganda

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by Susan Duclos, All News Pipeline:

Before we begin with recent reports and quotes by a META employee about their plans, let’s explain what the “Dead Internet Theory” is, from a couple of sources, starting with the leftist website Wikipedia, who refers to it as a “conspiracy theory.”

The dead Internet theory is an online conspiracy theory that asserts, due to a coordinated and intentional effort, the Internet now consists mainly of bot activity and automatically generated content manipulated by algorithmic curation to control the population and minimize organic human activity…

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The How-To Geek website, says it is more a hypothesis than a theory, yet still refers to it as a conspiracy, yet explains the ramifications if the theory is correct, stating “There’s no doubt that algorithms, AI, and numerous other variations of autonomous software can have real and serious consequences for the lives of humans on this planet. Whether it’s people being radicalized on social media, algorithms creating echo chambers, or people who don’t exist having an influence on real people, a total takeover could conceivably send human society down a different path of history.

Why would that even matter? Well, consider the impact that the internet has on modern society. It’s the primary way that people get information. It’s how misleading information about medical or political issues is spread with little or no oversight. With the internet being such an influential and central technology to modern human society, it stands to reason that having most of it be fake would be a huge point of concern!

With that out of the way, we jump back to 2016 in our memories to remember what a fuss the left made about “bots,” spreading discord, and pushing false information, with claims that foreign entities were influencing U.S. elections.

Twitter, now X, “purged” bots, Facebook in 2019 claimed to have removed 3 billion “fake” accounts, a considerable  number of them undoubtedly bots.

So, less than a decade ago, in the minds of tech giants like META, bots were bad, caused untold damage, and interfered with the 2016 election, with the radical far left folks insisting bot activity from Russia bot farms, gave Donald Trump the win over Hillary Clinton for the presidency.

In fact, CNN had the gall to dox and elderly woman, and harass her at her own house, because she shared information on a rally, that did occur, because the original post came from Russian trolls and/or bots.

CNN reporter Drew Griffin confronted an elderly woman on her front lawn in Florida about publicizing a pro-Donald Trump event during the 2016 presidential election, resulting in the senior citizen receiving abuse and threats on social media.

Florine Gruen Goldfarb, 76, of Team Trump Broward County, unwittingly posted information on the group’s Facebook page about a small August 2016 pro-Trump rally that was allegedly promoted by Russian trolls. During the interview, Goldfarb’s full name was revealed and her house number was readily visible.

Amazing what a few years will do, as now we witness the “Dead Internet Theory” being overtly implemented right in front of our eyes.

 

IT ISN’T A ‘THEORY’ ANYMORE….

Financial Times headlined on December 27, 2024 “Meta envisages social media filled with AI-generated users.

Some Key Quotes from that piece shown below:

• “We expect these AIs to actually, over time, exist on our platforms, kind of in the same way that accounts do,” said Connor Hayes, vice-president of product for generative AI at Meta. “They’ll have bios and profile pictures and be able to generate and share content powered by AI on the platform . . . that’s where we see all of this going,” he added.

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