The Dead Internet Theory could become real if AI replaces all human content creation
Yesterday me and my friends talked about the Dead Internet Theory
If nobody asks questions anymore on Stack Overflow, and sites like Reddit are now taken over by AI reply bots to promote brands, as well as AI reply bots on here, there is no real content anymore on the internet
And then there is no fresh training data anymore
I thought about something like, how would you find out the best outdoor action camera? Before I would search :
site:reddit.com best outdoor action camera
But now I just ask my AI which is the best
The problem is if nobody creates new content anymore and just asks their AI every question, the AI has nothing to train on anymore
And then I thought so what will happen? Will you get companies with giant warehouses that just buy stuff and review it with manually or with humanoid robots? Will you get humanoid robots backpacking in South East Asia to get life experience as training data? Or will we all train it by giving it access to our AI chats and user data?
I don't know but I think it's likely the web will dead in the future and AI companies will have to find training data elsewhere
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Internet_theory
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