Are we now stuck in a cycle where bots create content, upload it to fake profiles, and then other bots engage with it until it pops up in everyone's feeds?

See the article here: [https://www.daniweb.com/community-center/op-ed/541901/dead-internet-theory-is-the-web-dying](https://www.daniweb.com/community-center/op-ed/541901/dead-internet-theory-is-the-web-dying)

In 2024, for the first time more than half of all internet traffic will be from bots.

We've all seen AI generated 'Look what my son made'-pics go viral. Searches for "Dead Internet Theory" are way up this year on [Google trends](https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=dead%20internet%20theory&hl=en).

Between spam, centralization, monetization etc., imho things haven't been going well for the web for a while. But I think the flood of automatically generated content might actually ruin the web.

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