Ohanian and Altman warn of ‘Dead Internet Theory’
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Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian and OpenAI co-founder Sam Altman have warned on social media in recent weeks of the “Dead Internet Theory,” an idea that the internet is dominated by bot activity instead of humans—but experts who once dismissed the idea as a conspiracy theory are warning it may actually be legitimate amid the rise of artificial intelligence.
Ohanian said at a Wall Street Journal panel in June he has “long subscribed to the dead internet theory,” acknowledging it was regarded as a conspiracy theory a decade ago but is now “a very real thing” because of the proliferation of bots on social media as well as humans using AI to create and amplify content.
Altman has also warned about the Dead Internet Theory, writing in a post on X in September he “never took the dead internet theory that seriously but it seems like there are really a lot of LLM-run twitter accounts now.”
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