Meta, the company behind social media sites, Facebook and Instagram, has announced it will bring

AI-generated characters to Facebook.

This is raising some concerns, though, over what's being referred to as the dead internet

theory.

And speaking of AI, Professor Jeffrey Hinton, who is referred to as the godfather of AI, is warning there is a chance that artificial intelligence could destroy us all within the next 10 years.

And also Chinese hackers recently breached the U.S. Department of Treasury and stole documents,

and it appears this ties in with a broader campaign of the CCP right now to spy on smartphones and carry out other forms

of cyber espionage against key targets in the United States.

I'm the Epic Times Senior Investigator reporter Joshua Phillip and you're listening to Crossroads.

You may soon be seeing engagement on Facebook.

There might be more new users, but they may not be human users.

Instead, it may be from AI bots.

And you may not be able to tell whether or not a person is real or not.

If you're having a conversation, you might be talking to a bot.

And look, Meta, the company behind social media sites, Facebook and Instagram,

they've announced they're going to start bringing AI-generated characters to Facebook.

And this is part of a move to increase engagement on the platform. They can't get real users.

They'll get fake users.

And you'll be able to engage with these bots on the platform.

Now, this is raising some concerns, and one of the big concerns is over what's been referred to as the dead internet theory.

Now, this used to be called a conspiracy, and much of today's internet,

the idea is just bots and AI-created content. The theory with this is that the internet

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