I am sure everyone reading this is already aware of how AI hallucinates things on accident, and while that is a problem I've noticed something else thats actually worrying me a lot more. Basically i think that there are groups purposefully using AI to generate random information that doesnt exactly push any specific narrative like you might expect, but just confuses things in general. Like someone posted an article on another instance about AI wikipedia articles about fake events.

I know the Dead Internet Theory is a thing, but im starting to suspect that rather than just being an accidental thing, or a product of click farming there is a concerted effort to make it almost impossible to find reliable information on the internet. This would make sense from the perspective of the elitist status quo types as until the internet they had a really firm grasp on information. It was all controlled by universities, and media companies. I'm wondering if the goal is to make it back to a time like that. Where the general public is so confused and unable to access real information that they get easier to control. Making the internet useless for anything other than mindless entertainment.

I'm just preparing myself mentally for all the AI generated conspiracy theories people are gonna start believing.

  • TrashGoblin [he/him, they/them]
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    11 days ago

    It's impossible and probably not worthwhile to distinguish between Dead Internet caused by intentional destruction vs Dead Internet caused by click farming. The same system that would support intentional destruction is the one driving the click farming.

    • IHave69XiBucks@lemmygrad.ml
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      11 days ago

      Well with intentional destruction they are more likely to target even things like non-profits, and independent wikis. Which click farming would not effect as that is mainly for making money and wouldnt bother with platforms that lack monetization.

      • plinky [he/him]
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        11 days ago

        Can you imagine a teenager with 6 gb of vram deciding to vandalize wikipedia? i very easily can. Just as i can imagine creating a net of websites saturating seo with sheer volume to get some clickfarming money. The problem, largely speaking, is there is monetary incentive to do second thing, very clear one.

        And, if i were cia analyst, my data of local group activities or whatever will also get polluted to shits when this proliferates to other languages.