Dead internet
With the advent of AI technology spreading across the wired, there are an almost unlimited amount of examples that point to the idea that "dead internet theory" may no longer be a theory but a practical reality. Digital spaces, primarily social media (x, tiktok, instagram, reddit, youtube), have been flooded with scraped, copy pasted, inauthentic, and repetitive "content" that lacks substance. Most of this is at the hands of large language models, bot traffic and algorithms being manipulated for specific interests, but the widespread adoption of this technology has led to artificial posts, massive amounts of misinformation, forced interactions, and digital ecosystems that operate without human input with the goal of exploiting any real person who engages with them. Social apps, linguistics, search engines, journalism, video games, art, software programs, operating systems, nearly everything is in the midst of an authenticity crisis; don't even get me started on AI "relationships". One could argue that the mechanisms pushing the internet towards this direction have been in place since at least the early 2010s, but seeing this artificial content is unavoidable on the modern internet, specifically on the popular avenues that most people who use the internet inhabit. Also, it is mandatory to mention the obvious government involvement. Despite all of this, it seems to be a common sentiment to many users that this is a bad development./cy/ber emancipation
How are you opting out recently? Cyberpunk is not just an aesthetic, it's technological ecology and emancipation. Have/are you replacing Big 5? How are you applying cyberpunk ethics to your life? Let's share ideas and support each other!