There was a #39c3 talk on PTP that looked interesting, but had ai slop images and the presenter said they used chatgpt to code some of their presentation (and which they blamed when that part of the demo failed). And this morning there was a potentially neat article about hosting websites on a SPARC1, which diverged into unrelated MCP sloperations, so the whole article is suspect and not worth sharing. More disappointing evidence for the #DeadInternetTheory...
When I open specific commercial social media and read certain threads, I wonder if they’re full of bots or idiots.
I hope it’s the former, but I fear it’s the latter…
BOTS ARE EVERYWHERE. 50% of all Internet traffic are bots, 66% of bot traffic is malicious, 43% targets SMBs. @robert
@rolle @robert So... can we all agree that the #deadInternetTheory became reality?
Me realizing the dismantling of #netneutrality, #twitter safety, #facebook moderation, coming of #CambridgeAnalytica and the #Gamergate situation all happened around the same time (2011 - 2015), directly driving the downslide into racism and misogyny on the internet, while realizing the first levels of #deadinternettheory started appearing immediately after:
