[cgh]

Yes, Dead Internet Theory went from joke to reality in what feels like overnight.

[mmooss]

The usual goal of professional propaganda - of disinformation - is to paralyze, to prevent constructive communication, discourse, progress.

[SV_BubbleTime]

Was it a joke?

Am I to mourn the loss of what I personally consider one of the worst manipulative toxins to ever exist?

Thanks AI.

[satvikpendem]

It was never a joke because bots are older than AI

[amypetrik8]

as a black box, a 4k context LLM AI (text in, text out) is no different than a highly effective search engine indexing all possible 4k bodies of text (also - text in, text out)