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Dead Internet Theory Explained: AI Bots vs. Humans

CNET Associate Writer, Trisha Jandoc, explains the origins of the “Dead Internet Theory,” the recent resurgence of the theory and the rise of “Ai Art Slop,” and tries to answer the question: “is The Internet actually dead?” and if it is, what does it mean? Read more on CNET.com Did the Internet Die in 2016?…

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CNET Associate Writer, Trisha Jandoc, explains the origins of the “Dead Internet Theory,” the recent resurgence of the theory and the rise of “Ai Art Slop,” and tries to answer the question: “is The Internet actually dead?” and if it is, what does it mean?

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Did the Internet Die in 2016? There’s an Online Community That Thinks So

0:00 Introduction
0:14 Theory Origins
0:53 Shrimp Jesus & “Ai Art Slop”
1:28 Theory Resurgence
2:18 What Does a “Dead Internet” Mean?

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33 Comments

  1. @Aragorn7884

    May 14, 2025 at 8:05 am

    _Are the birds real?_ 😏

    • @JavenarchX

      May 14, 2025 at 8:19 am

      Only a bot would say that!

    • @Aragorn7884

      May 14, 2025 at 8:30 am

      @@JavenarchX😅

  2. @ZealousZeal1

    May 14, 2025 at 8:06 am

    Yeah … and I don’t need AI anymore ahh” comment 😂😂😂

  3. @reezdog

    May 14, 2025 at 8:10 am

    So to gin up views and likes. You can use bots to like, subscribe and comment. It is even happening in this video.

  4. @jenreypr

    May 14, 2025 at 8:10 am

    What is the point of this video?..

    • @JavenarchX

      May 14, 2025 at 8:19 am

      That’s exactly what an bot would say

    • @jhi6857

      May 14, 2025 at 8:40 am

      Whatch the whole vid😊

    • @jenreypr

      May 14, 2025 at 9:02 am

      ​@@JavenarchX What a intelligent bot, isn’t it?

  5. @504cool

    May 14, 2025 at 8:11 am

    Is this perspective coming from people who grew up during the social media era?

  6. @rgen28

    May 14, 2025 at 8:11 am

    Soon. AI bots will create YouTube video. Then AI bots will watch themselves. Free money.

    • @nickcpv

      May 14, 2025 at 12:35 pm

      Except is costs a lot to run AI

  7. @Harsha_D

    May 14, 2025 at 8:18 am

    @ 2:53, “with great AI power, it giving us a worst possible responses” 😂🤣

    Stay away from AI chatbots if you feel you didn’t get what you want from its responses.

  8. @JavenarchX

    May 14, 2025 at 8:21 am

    All the bots commenting in this video….

  9. @cameronliterally

    May 14, 2025 at 8:48 am

    Shrimp heaven now

  10. @WilliamMoore-fx6qk

    May 14, 2025 at 9:26 am

    Actually, I remember reading an article back in 2002 about Microsoft pulling their ai chat bot experiment offline because it was saying things that were politically incorrect to users who didn’t know they were chat bots …. They basically trained it using msn chat messages from all their users the article said…so I guess generative chat bots have been around since then but weren’t that good until 2020’when they started letting people use chat gpt.

  11. @kumarashwarya2185

    May 14, 2025 at 9:37 am

    videos like this make me feel that the internet is dead!

  12. @waitz001

    May 14, 2025 at 10:26 am

    what’s the point of AI bots?

    • @marino6707

      May 14, 2025 at 11:29 am

      Existence!!!

    • @waitz001

      May 14, 2025 at 11:42 am

      ​@@marino6707no, like, …how are they making $$?

    • @danwl9708

      May 14, 2025 at 7:35 pm

      On YT, I think to create fake engagement to increase likeliness of content being shown, or to direct people to an ad on their profile

  13. @ericg979

    May 14, 2025 at 10:52 am

    I said a while ago that dating apps are just bots talking to other bots now and are entirely useless to humans, jumped the shark. The only effective way is to just go out and mingle like back in the day lol

  14. @alex3261

    May 14, 2025 at 11:45 am

    It woulf be great if the robots would do the cleanup after a party. So far, only the industrial robots are useful, all the other applications are pretty much useless.

  15. @StevenW42

    May 14, 2025 at 11:57 am

    It’s not a theory anymore

  16. @js6728

    May 14, 2025 at 1:43 pm

    All your search results are bought and paid for, it’s not a internet, but spin it to something else

  17. @grimeto7323

    May 14, 2025 at 2:48 pm

    All media will get swamped with artificially generated slop. Probably not too far in the future,videos with AI agents will flood YouTube as well… Are these comments even real? Am I?

  18. @quarksounds

    May 14, 2025 at 3:58 pm

    You basically can’t go to a thread on YouTube, Reddit, etc, without there being multiple bot comments posing as people or taking reposting comments from old threads. Bots are also being used everywhere by bad actors to shape political discourse and spread disinformation/misinformation.

  19. @landshass2849

    May 14, 2025 at 4:39 pm

    In 5 years, AI bots will destroy the search engines. Google will be the first victim. We may end up going to libraries again.

  20. @DK-ue5ks

    May 14, 2025 at 5:05 pm

    Twitter is an example of dead internet theory.

  21. @CNET

    May 14, 2025 at 6:31 pm

    Read more on CNET.com: Did the Internet Die in 2016? There’s an Online Community That Thinks So

  22. @samushunter0048

    May 14, 2025 at 7:11 pm

    Bots didnt create those accounts, the social media companies are posting these.

  23. @Cosmosis-86

    May 14, 2025 at 8:26 pm

    🤬 AI and robots!

  24. @seattlekarim964

    May 14, 2025 at 9:17 pm

    Somehow this is the only video on YouTube that doesn’t have a bot comment as number one

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