The more posts I read on Hotcopper, the more I become convinced that the "Dead Internet" theory is accurate.
So much content from both sides of the the world politics debate is laughably false, but nobody seems to care anymore.
Eventually we will reach our logical conclusion, people will begin to worship AI generated artefacts such as "shrimp jesus" and fight wars in its name.
For anyone unfamilar, the theory is that most of the internet is now bots sharing other bot content that was generated by AI in order to boost ad revenue.
In the last week alone we've seen JD Vance's couch and Khelif's male gender become facts that never existed. The way that both of these were embraced shows that most people aren't bothering to measure twice and cut once, they just share and embrace what resonates with them.
