[PaulKeeble]

The dead internet theory is fairly rapidly happening. More and more of the content has been at least significantly produced by AI and its only going to get worse.

[mr_mitm]

A corollary of the dead internet theory is the phenomenon where people suspect any content to be AI generated. Sometimes one em dash is enough to spark such suspicions and allegations. Not only is fake content falsely labeled as real, real content is increasingly falsely labeled as fake.

[Balgair]

Yes emdashes are very much a sign. I stand by this. Why?

What is the key combo to make an emdash?

On a phone keyboard, sure, it's as hard as an accent sign (á, for example), difficult but not twrrible. But on a keyboard? Yeah, no one is typing in Alt combos when literally any other construction will do.

[oblio]

Amusingly, after a lot of pain this might push us back to the real world :-))

[matwood]

I was wondering about this. Maybe we were not really meant to spend so much time communicating through screens. And if all we do is communicate through screens, does it even matter if it’s AI, a dog, or a person? I know people will jump in and say yes it matters, but if I was never going to meet the person on the other side of a comment it’s hard to get worked up about it.

[outime]

At least when it comes to human interaction (like irl forums etc), I think it has a good chance of happening.

[bpavuk]

damn you are getting downvoted so hard! folks really don't want to leave screens

[zombot]

And it will be increasingly hard to keep the slop of preceding generations out of the training data. The race to the bottom is inevitable.

[simonw]

I don't think that's particularly hard. AI labs are very selective about what they use for training. The days of indiscriminately scraping the entire internet and dumping that in, unfiltered, are long behind us.