Reddit is so very dead... Today, I read a post in /r/webdev or /r/rust, not sure which one, but both are full with AI bull, that was clearly written by AI. Then most answers were also clearly written by AI. And some of them had answers written by AI.

I wish that was the dead internet theory. But that requires bots to answer to bots. I believe those are people who answer other people, by putting a few bullet points into AI and have it generate their comment.

And yes, I think so little of my fellow humans that I do strongly believe that most of them are unaware that they answering AI with AI.

Well, reddit is such an echo chamber that they were already dead. On dr, unique opinions are rewarded or ignored. But on reddit it almost directly goes to a -1 resulting in people don't want to wrong. The voting culture sucks. In Netherlands we got something on top of that, if you make certain spelling mistakes (a few types of mistakes) people are considered stupid and you rather get a spelling correction from someone than an answer resulting people using gpt. So it's also insecurity.

Fun fact: I can ask gpt to describe my way of English and can use that as system message what ends up gpt talking exactly like me, very accurate. Why don't people do that, you can literally ask gpt your writing style. The usage of AI by many people is so disappointing. If you do fraud, at least do it well. Nobody uses the word whimsical.

Heck, I'm helping with a MMO community. The amount of questions on the discord Q&A channel with "how to do 'mechanic' in this raid encounter" with paragraphs of clearly AI generated body is so annoying to read.

or a different guild were the leader is from lebanon. Struggles to speak English and makes announcement with chatgpt. The differences in typos, uppercases & punctuation between him casually chatting and making announcement is such a difference. (but that guild had a lot of drama, I can write a book about it)

At this point, I rather try to decipher a broken English text that is clearly written by a human than deal with AI bullshit.

Or the amount of clearly AI generated projects in /r/sideprojects or /r/react is so demotivating. They don't even solve a human need and people claim "look at what i've learned to code"

@wojtek322 question is, what is considered effortless these days? Using AI or not even have bothered to let AI look at it? I also decided to keep my sites in my signature English instead of using AI. It's mainly for myself anyway. Molodetz is a self development tracker. It's sad to develop yourself full time and you have nothing to show.

Part of dead internet theory is the Truman effect (limiting information). The mass de-listing of competing websites in the information space. Google has de-listed millions of websites from their search engines. This started back in 2016. Medical researchers saw 90% of the websites they were researching removed from Google search overnight. This was done pre covid. It was to prep people to be less knowledgeable of medical when covid was planned to hit. It has only gotten worse. So its not just bots talking to bots. It encompasses the shrinking of knowledge available to users.

Honestly, I feel the same. It’s not bots talking to bots anymore — it’s people outsourcing every thought to AI and pretending it’s a real conversation. Threads look active, but none of it feels human. No personality, no experience, no flaws. Just polished nothing. Hard to stay motivated to post when it feels like shouting into a generator loop.

@JordanNotBel I see what you did there

use the fediverse

Today a message of mine was flagged as a one liner and deleted. Literal nazi's. Leftist scum.

@retoor wtf is a "one liner"?

@YourMom you know what I mean young man.

^^ oneliner.

@whimsical like: Hitler wasn't worse than Hitler.