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Bonus #223 - Dead Internet Theory and Fake Cakes (Extra Dose)
🕑 Added 2024-04-30 16:00:10 +0000 UTCVIDEO LINK: https://youtu.be/rufxhisV8uw
Hey everyone, it's Bonus Dose day, and although today's video looks at a specific online phenomenon ("The Dead Internet Theory"), it might also highlight the complete lack of a monoculture, and just how different everyone's experience online is these days. Have you seen the fake cakes before? Let me know in the comments either here or on YouTube. Enjoy!
Buckley takes a look at the "Dead Internet Theory", a belief that much of the social media content you see, as well as the views and replies to it, are generated by bots and clickfarms, that more than half the time, if you're arguing with a stranger online? That stranger isn't real. And you know what else isn't real? All those cakes you're seeing on Facebook!
Comments
Josh Mannig
Jeez this is such a weird rabbit hole what exactly is going on in cyberspace!
Igor Rovinion
Facebook has just been scammers and account farms for years now. Bots and AI just gave the people behind these accounts ways to look more convincing.
Powell to the people
You're not entirely wrong it can be a grift, at the same time this can also be used to collect real humans, especially women, who're attracted to these bot pictures. The more social media platforms crack down on political content, the more these groups can be used as gateways of radicalization, and then grifting. The easiest we can tell it's fake isn't even the jumbled language that Anglophone speakers could mistake for a European one, rather the glaring fact you can't see their hands.
Justin Hudson
Maybe it's just AI pretending to look stupid so we don't think that it's smart enough to actually take over one day?
