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That's V-A-N-T-A-com slash G-O. Hello, friends, and welcome back to the rabbit hole. I'm your host, Danny, and today is going to be a little bit different. So I am actually taking this week off. I told you at the

end of the Robert Maxwell episode that I would not be here. But I did not want to leave you high and

dry. I wanted to give you something to hold you over until I come back next week. So instead of me

giving you an episode, I partnered with the swerve podcast. Magnum does such good research very similar to what we're

doing over here at the rabbit hole. And so I asked him if I could borrow an episode and drop it

in your guys' feed. That way you can hear him and you're not left with no episode at all this

week. So please enjoy the dead internet theory. Two strangers meet in an online forum. They have a lengthy, seemingly The Dead Internet Theory.

Two strangers meet in an online forum.

They have a lengthy, seemingly meaningful conversation, but only one of them is real.

According to what's called the dead internet theory, this scenario isn't just possible.

It makes up the majority of our online existence.

How do you know if the people you interact with on social media, the trending topics that capture your attention, and the content that fills your feed,

are not actually generated by sophisticated artificial intelligence? What if the internet

you think you're experiencing is a carefully constructed illusion designed to keep you clicking,

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