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The Why Files: Operation Podcast

509: DEEP DIVE: The Dead Internet Theory | It's ALL Fake

The Why Files: Operation Podcast

The Why Files: Operation Podcast

Science, Life Sciences, Fiction, Society & Culture, Documentary, Science Fiction

4.85.9K Ratings

🗓️ 22 November 2023

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

What if all of our online existence is fake?

You, me, everyone; we're living in a real-life Matrix. Designed to distract us from the truth: that we're just drones in a digital ant-hill. We live, work and die so that the wealthy and powerful can grow more wealthy and powerful.

This is called the Dead Internet Theory. And there's compelling evidence that it's real.

Let's find out why.

Transcript

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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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