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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@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😅
@ZealousZeal1
May 14, 2025 at 8:06 am
Yeah … and I don’t need AI anymore ahh” comment 😂😂😂
@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.
@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?
@504cool
May 14, 2025 at 8:11 am
Is this perspective coming from people who grew up during the social media era?
@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
@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.
@JavenarchX
May 14, 2025 at 8:21 am
All the bots commenting in this video….
@cameronliterally
May 14, 2025 at 8:48 am
Shrimp heaven now
@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.
@kumarashwarya2185
May 14, 2025 at 9:37 am
videos like this make me feel that the internet is dead!
@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
@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
@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.
@StevenW42
May 14, 2025 at 11:57 am
It’s not a theory anymore
@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
@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?
@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.
@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.
@DK-ue5ks
May 14, 2025 at 5:05 pm
Twitter is an example of dead internet theory.
@CNET
May 14, 2025 at 6:31 pm
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@samushunter0048
May 14, 2025 at 7:11 pm
Bots didnt create those accounts, the social media companies are posting these.
@Cosmosis-86
May 14, 2025 at 8:26 pm
🤬 AI and robots!
@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