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Dead internet

Quite good article about a forum admin using LLMs to inflate traffic, and the Dead Internet Theory becoming real life.

Cautionary tale for AI agent devs: make something novel, that people want to talk to. Not a slop imitation of a human user

This image shows a screenshot of a forum post from 2007 where a user named ravenprp, in a 2007 post, claims to be a large language model developed by OpenAI, responding to a question about an HP 50g calculator. Below that, a 2019 post by user qntm mentions discovering 10 years of updates on their account.

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