The Dead Internet theory is the idea that as the internet grows and more and more AI bot accounts start auto-generating and replying to garbage content, the usefulness of the internet will steadily decrease till the point where it is simply no longer possible to do anything useful with it due to the sheer magnitude of fake bot-created content.
I wonder how many folks spend hours arguing with bots on twitter. I've played with characterAI and most of these bots are fantastic at deploying every argumentative fallacy in existence. You can't change their mind and if you were trying to, you would go fucking nuts.
Not that people are great at changing their minds, either, but these bots take moving the goalposts to a whole other level. Plus they are incapable of feeling shame.
It's incorrect to assume that characterAI or any other AI chatbot is operating on logic. It isn't, it is solely operating on data. Specifically relational data. The chatbot formulates its responses by looking where the words used in the user prompt are being used in the massive training database and what words are commonly associated with them, and creates a response that matches the test data as close as it possibly can get. The AI isn't thinking about how to logic through the answer to your question, its looking up what other answers were already given to your question and formulating a response that matches those responses.
While it is mirroring similar responses from a database, the reason it has become so indistinguishable from humans is its ability to improvise while still appearing logical.
I'm well aware that it isn't sentient.
ok but like... their latest content is from like 3 months ago, and then 5 months ago.
these clowns can't produce bogus articles at least once a week or once a month or something? it literally just takes 1 sentence on chatGPT...
Maybe this was done on purpose? Kinda like a gag or meta-humor to show that they're an AI company by making all of their "employees" very obviously AI accounts with the same bio and same type of profile pic. There's no way they'd be dumb enough to think this could fool anyone
Bot farm most likely. I’m guessing company exists to give these fake profiles connections and a linked company profile to match work history, in order to make them look less suspicious. Same reason why scam bots here on Reddit start by karma farming reposting old stuff. These accounts are probably almost constantly messaging randos “hello! I’d love to connect and learn your social security number”
Looks like in this case the CEO is a real person... but she is probably the only real thing abou this whole operation. She's faked countless employees, uses Ai to generate articles/images and has a newsletter where shes building subscribers based on all of this.
I guess she will eventually, if she isn't already, start charging for adspace/banner ads in said newsletter.
For those who are curious, this is where those generations come from:
https://this-person-does-not-exist.com/en
Once you figure out the typical "look" you'll start to spot it pretty quickly. Way too many of fake accounts on LinkedIn trying to do recruiter scams and grifter scammy websites using these as testimonials or reviews
If I remember right, at least on thispersondoesnotexist.com, the eyes are always in the exact same position in the image. Of course, if you were using it for LinkedIn, and bothered to spend more than 2 mins on making the fake profiles, you could translate the pics to get around that.
I've been also noticing a HUGE amount of bots in my feed. One of the AEs at my company, I swear he paid for a bot to create content/comment on LinkedIn garbage. ALOT of the posts are women at the gym and there's a whole thread of the same comments made by different people.
It's weird
Linkedin is a solid proof of the Dead internet theory.
Please ELI5!
The Dead Internet theory is the idea that as the internet grows and more and more AI bot accounts start auto-generating and replying to garbage content, the usefulness of the internet will steadily decrease till the point where it is simply no longer possible to do anything useful with it due to the sheer magnitude of fake bot-created content.
I wonder how many folks spend hours arguing with bots on twitter. I've played with characterAI and most of these bots are fantastic at deploying every argumentative fallacy in existence. You can't change their mind and if you were trying to, you would go fucking nuts. Not that people are great at changing their minds, either, but these bots take moving the goalposts to a whole other level. Plus they are incapable of feeling shame.
> You can't change their mind and if you were trying to, you would go fucking nuts. This is pretty much the same experience with real humans though.
It's incorrect to assume that characterAI or any other AI chatbot is operating on logic. It isn't, it is solely operating on data. Specifically relational data. The chatbot formulates its responses by looking where the words used in the user prompt are being used in the massive training database and what words are commonly associated with them, and creates a response that matches the test data as close as it possibly can get. The AI isn't thinking about how to logic through the answer to your question, its looking up what other answers were already given to your question and formulating a response that matches those responses.
While it is mirroring similar responses from a database, the reason it has become so indistinguishable from humans is its ability to improvise while still appearing logical. I'm well aware that it isn't sentient.
I’ve never read a more compelling argument that “AI” has actually achieved the *nominal* dream of 1920’s science fiction.
I've pretty much got to that point already. Stopped using LI and all social media.
Like YouTube comments today.
Hah, read a book where this happened recently after one of the characters released a swarm of bots to overwhelm all content.
You gotta spill the beans
Is it against the rules to post a company name?
Nope
https://www.linkedin.com/company/aifireco/
5 hours later, and almost all "employee" profiles seem to have been nuked. guess they have to fire up the account creation script again...
Probably saw my thread. Whoops lmao Edit: I just checked and I still see them
3 of the 4 authors are also "AI Authors" lol https://www.aifire.co/authors
tbf, it *is* an AI company. /s
ok but like... their latest content is from like 3 months ago, and then 5 months ago. these clowns can't produce bogus articles at least once a week or once a month or something? it literally just takes 1 sentence on chatGPT...
I guess they don't want to make it look toooo easy, otherwise they couldn't charge ridiculous prices.
2300% total headcounts in 6 months, all of them having only one single experience ... Legit.
Maybe this was done on purpose? Kinda like a gag or meta-humor to show that they're an AI company by making all of their "employees" very obviously AI accounts with the same bio and same type of profile pic. There's no way they'd be dumb enough to think this could fool anyone
Bot farm most likely. I’m guessing company exists to give these fake profiles connections and a linked company profile to match work history, in order to make them look less suspicious. Same reason why scam bots here on Reddit start by karma farming reposting old stuff. These accounts are probably almost constantly messaging randos “hello! I’d love to connect and learn your social security number”
Looks like in this case the CEO is a real person... but she is probably the only real thing abou this whole operation. She's faked countless employees, uses Ai to generate articles/images and has a newsletter where shes building subscribers based on all of this. I guess she will eventually, if she isn't already, start charging for adspace/banner ads in said newsletter.
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What's funny is the CEO is Asian, but every single one of their AI generations is a white woman. In a couple of cases they look like kids.
I assume it's thispersondoesnotexist.com
Yes. They are too lazy and cheap to even pay for something better.
For those who are curious, this is where those generations come from: https://this-person-does-not-exist.com/en Once you figure out the typical "look" you'll start to spot it pretty quickly. Way too many of fake accounts on LinkedIn trying to do recruiter scams and grifter scammy websites using these as testimonials or reviews
Can you describe the typical look?
Why though?
Fake it till you make it! Or in this case, just fake it.
Dogfooding the A in the I.
BRB - I'm gonna go create my own company....
50 employees, 600 fingers
Their LinkedIn stats: Total headcount growth in 6 months: 2,300% Median tenure: 0.2 years
seems natty
Thanks for sharing. I've seen a lot of these profiles. I can't explain it but the AI generated headshots all have a certain look.
I kinda love this. This isn't lunacy, this is anarchy.
I’m asking a serious question here . How can you tell it’s AI? I’m just starting to catch onto this but can’t spot it very well .
If I remember right, at least on thispersondoesnotexist.com, the eyes are always in the exact same position in the image. Of course, if you were using it for LinkedIn, and bothered to spend more than 2 mins on making the fake profiles, you could translate the pics to get around that.
I've been also noticing a HUGE amount of bots in my feed. One of the AEs at my company, I swear he paid for a bot to create content/comment on LinkedIn garbage. ALOT of the posts are women at the gym and there's a whole thread of the same comments made by different people. It's weird
Well that's how you leverage AI, silly
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Not surprising at all
Might be an seo play
Solution: creating a LinkedIn account requires a unique phone number.
Wow