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🗓️ 22 November 2023
⏱️ 33 minutes
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0:00.0 | What if I told you that most, if not all of your online existence, is fake? |
0:06.2 | The articles you read, the Twitter accounts you follow, even this podcast you're listening |
0:11.0 | to right now, it's all fiction created by artificial intelligence whose job is to keep you |
0:17.2 | clicking on content that doesn't matter and keep you buying products you don't need. |
0:23.0 | You, me, everyone, were living in a real life matrix designed to distract you from the |
0:28.6 | truth that we're just drones in a digital anvil, we live, work and die so that the wealthy |
0:35.7 | and powerful can grow more wealthy and powerful. |
0:39.2 | This is called the Dead Internet Theory and there's compelling evidence that it's real. |
0:44.8 | Let's find out why. |
0:53.9 | The core premise of the Dead Internet conspiracy says the most internet content and the consumers |
1:00.4 | of that content are fake, they don't exist. |
1:04.3 | What I mean by that is that a large percentage of content you view online wasn't created |
1:09.8 | by a real person, it was generated by AI and that includes emails, blog posts, descriptions |
1:17.0 | of online products and social media chatter and many online accounts are actually bots. |
1:23.6 | These bots are responsible for a lot of online traffic, like website visits, link clicks |
1:29.3 | and video views and the links they're clicking and websites they're visiting, those two |
1:34.6 | were also generated by AI. |
1:37.5 | So how much content on the internet is actually created by AI? |
1:42.1 | Let's actually more than you think. |
1:44.3 | Studies say that only about 50% of web traffic is human and that number is going down every |
1:50.4 | year. |
1:51.4 | In 2013, the Times reported that half of YouTube traffic was bots masquerading as people. |
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