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A personal observation that the 'dead internet theory' — the idea that bots and AI-generated content have overtaken genuine human interaction online — is no longer speculative. Examples include a job applicant replying with an AI-generated message, Hacker News restricting ShowHN posts and banning AI-generated comments, Reddit bots astroturfing SaaS products, LinkedIn feeds flooded with AI slop, and AI bots spamming GitHub repos with nonsensical pull requests reviewed by other AIs.

The dead Internet is not a theory anymore.

“My agent got a mind of its own and started applying for jobs for me” 😂
That is at the same time absolutely impressive and stupid 😂

Im not gonna but would be absolutely hilarious to respond to this post with ai slop.