Dead Internet theory (English Wikipedia)

Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Dead Internet theory" in English language version.

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404media.co

Koebler, Jason (August 6, 2024). "Where Facebook's AI Slop Comes From". 404 Media. Retrieved September 29, 2024.

agoraroad.com

forum.agoraroad.com

IlluminatiPirate (January 5, 2021). "Dead Internet Theory: Most of the Internet is Fake". Agora Road's Macintosh Cafe. Retrieved November 14, 2024.

analyticsindiamag.com

Gopani, Avi (September 6, 2021). "Conspiracy Theorists Says The Internet Has Been Dead Since 2016". Analytics India Magazine. Archived from the original on June 16, 2023. Retrieved June 16, 2023.

apnews.com

Grantham-Philips, Wyatte (June 16, 2023). "The Reddit blackout, explained: Why thousands of subreddits are protesting third-party app charges". Associated Press. Archived from the original on June 21, 2023. Retrieved June 21, 2023.
O'brien, Matt (October 31, 2022). "Musk now gets chance to defeat Twitter's many fake accounts". AP News. Archived from the original on May 5, 2023. Retrieved June 16, 2023.

arstechnica.com

Edwards, Benj (September 18, 2024). ""Dead Internet theory" comes to life with new AI-powered social media app". Ars Technica. Retrieved September 18, 2024.

arxiv.org

Berry, David M. (March 19, 2025). "Synthetic media and computational capitalism: towards a critical theory of artificial intelligence". AI & Society. arXiv:2503.18976. doi:10.1007/s00146-025-02265-2. ISSN 1435-5655.

blog.google

Tucker, Elizabeth (March 5, 2024). "New ways we're tackling spammy, low-quality content on Search". Archived from the original on March 9, 2024. Retrieved March 9, 2024.

books.google.com

Dao, Bridgit (2023). The Metaweb The Next Level of the Internet. CRC Press. ISBN 9781000960495. Archived from the original on March 19, 2024. Retrieved March 1, 2024.

businessinsider.com

Agarwal, Shubham (August 8, 2023). "AI is ruining the internet". Business Insider. Archived from the original on September 28, 2023. Retrieved September 30, 2023.
Notopoulos, Katie. "Why doesn't Facebook just ban AI slop like Shrimp Jesus?". Business Insider. Retrieved October 4, 2024.
Syme, Pete (June 13, 2023). "Elon Musk's war against Twitter bots isn't going very well. Next, you'll have to pay to DM those who don't follow you". Business Insider. Archived from the original on June 16, 2023. Retrieved June 16, 2023.
Kay, Grace; Hays, Kali. "Elon Musk's own data scientists couldn't find many bots on Twitter, and he hid that crucial information, the company says". Business Insider. Archived from the original on May 29, 2024. Retrieved May 29, 2024.

capiz-news.com

Gonzales III, Vic (June 28, 2023). "The Internet is Dead: The Truth Behind the Dead Internet Theory". Capiz News. Archived from the original on July 4, 2023. Retrieved July 4, 2023.

cbsnews.com

"As Twitter's new owner, Musk gets his chance to defeat bots". CBS News. October 31, 2022. Archived from the original on June 16, 2023. Retrieved June 16, 2023.
Picchi, Aimee (May 17, 2022). "What are Twitter bots, and why is Elon Musk obsessed with them?". CBS News. Archived from the original on June 16, 2023. Retrieved June 16, 2023.

cifs.dk

Hvitved, Sofie (February 24, 2022). "What if 98% of the Metaverse is made by AI?". Copenhagen Institute for Future Studies. Archived from the original on June 16, 2023. Retrieved June 16, 2023.

cnn.com

Duffy, Clare; Fung, Brian (October 10, 2022). "Elon Musk commissioned this bot analysis in his fight with Twitter. Now it shows what he could face if he takes over the platform". CNN Business. Archived from the original on June 16, 2023. Retrieved June 16, 2023.

cybernews.com

Hughes, Neil C. (August 26, 2023). "Echoes of the dead internet theory: AI's silent takeover". Cybernews. Archived from the original on November 10, 2023. Retrieved November 10, 2023.

doi.org

Walter, Y. (February 5, 2024). "Artificial influencers and the dead internet theory". AI & Society. 40: 239–240. doi:10.1007/s00146-023-01857-0. Archived from the original on February 8, 2024. Retrieved February 8, 2024.
Stenzel, Gerhard; Zorn, Maximilian; Altmann, Philipp; Mansky, Maximilian Balthasar; Kölle, Michael; Gabor, Thomas (July 2024). "Self-Replicating Prompts for Large Language Models: Towards Artificial Culture". ALIFE 2024: Proceedings of the 2024 Artificial Life Conference. The 2024 Conference on Artificial Life. doi:10.1162/isal_a_00813. Retrieved October 27, 2024.
Sommerer, Thomas (2025). "Baudrillard and the Dead Internet Theory. Revisiting Baudrillard's (dis)trust in Artificial Intelligence". Philosophy & Technology. 38 (54). doi:10.1007/s13347-025-00878-5. Retrieved May 19, 2025.
McLean, Aaron Lawson; Hristidis, Vagelis (2025). "Evidence-Based Analysis of AI Chatbots in Oncology Patient Education: Implications for Trust, Perceived Realness, and Misinformation Management". Journal of Cancer Education. doi:10.1007/s13187-025-02592-4. Retrieved May 19, 2025.
Berry, David M. (March 19, 2025). "Synthetic media and computational capitalism: towards a critical theory of artificial intelligence". AI & Society. arXiv:2503.18976. doi:10.1007/s00146-025-02265-2. ISSN 1435-5655.

fastcompany.com

Grothaus, Michael (April 4, 2024). "Is the 'Dead Internet' theory suddenly coming true? This could be a sign". Fast Company. Retrieved June 21, 2024.

ft.com

"Meta envisages social media filled with AI-generated users". Financial Times. December 27, 2024.

gizmodo.com

Serrano, Jody (March 5, 2024). "Google Says It's Purging All the AI Trash Littering Its Search Results". Gizmodo. Archived from the original on March 9, 2024. Retrieved March 9, 2024.
Gault, Matthew (August 7, 2024). "Facebook's Twisted Incentives Created Its AI Slop Era". Gizmodo. Retrieved September 29, 2024.

idr.ro

Codreanu, Claudiu (2023). Policy Paper Nr. 35/2023: Departe de utopii și distopii. Impactul AI asuprasecurității cibernetice (PDF). Institutul Diplomatic Român. Archived (PDF) from the original on April 7, 2024. Retrieved April 7, 2024.

iflscience.com

Felton, James (February 1, 2024). "Dead Internet Theory: According To Conspiracy Theorists, The Internet Died In 2016". iflscience. Archived from the original on February 26, 2024. Retrieved April 7, 2024.

imperva.com

"Bot Traffic Report 2016 | Imperva". Blog. January 24, 2017. Archived from the original on June 4, 2024. Retrieved June 4, 2024.

independent.co.uk

Griffin, Andrew (April 17, 2024). "Humans now share the web equally with bots, report warns amid fears of the 'dead internet'". Independent. Archived from the original on May 7, 2024. Retrieved May 7, 2024.

jstor.org

Mariani, Robert (2023). "The Dead Internet to Come". The New Atlantis. 73 (73): 34–42. JSTOR 27244117. Archived from the original on January 23, 2024. Retrieved January 23, 2024.

mit.edu

direct.mit.edu

Stenzel, Gerhard; Zorn, Maximilian; Altmann, Philipp; Mansky, Maximilian Balthasar; Kölle, Michael; Gabor, Thomas (July 2024). "Self-Replicating Prompts for Large Language Models: Towards Artificial Culture". ALIFE 2024: Proceedings of the 2024 Artificial Life Conference. The 2024 Conference on Artificial Life. doi:10.1162/isal_a_00813. Retrieved October 27, 2024.

nbcnews.com

Yang, Angela (March 19, 2024). "Facebook users say 'amen' to bizarre AI-generated images of Jesus". NBC News. Archived from the original on May 8, 2024. Retrieved May 7, 2024.

nymag.com

Read, Max (December 26, 2018). "How Much of the Internet Is Fake? Turns Out, a Lot of It, Actually". New York:Intelligencer. Archived from the original on June 19, 2023. Retrieved June 19, 2023.

nytimes.com

Keller, Michael H. (August 11, 2018). "The Flourishing Business of Fake YouTube Views". The New York Times. Archived from the original on June 19, 2023. Retrieved June 19, 2023.

openai.com

"Improving language understanding with unsupervised learning". openai.com. Archived from the original on March 18, 2023. Retrieved March 18, 2023.

ouest-france.fr

"Une théorie du complot affirme qu'internet est « mort » depuis 2016". Ouest-France.fr (in French). September 6, 2021. Archived from the original on March 6, 2023. Retrieved March 6, 2023.

springer.com

link.springer.com

Walter, Y. (February 5, 2024). "Artificial influencers and the dead internet theory". AI & Society. 40: 239–240. doi:10.1007/s00146-023-01857-0. Archived from the original on February 8, 2024. Retrieved February 8, 2024.
Sommerer, Thomas (2025). "Baudrillard and the Dead Internet Theory. Revisiting Baudrillard's (dis)trust in Artificial Intelligence". Philosophy & Technology. 38 (54). doi:10.1007/s13347-025-00878-5. Retrieved May 19, 2025.
McLean, Aaron Lawson; Hristidis, Vagelis (2025). "Evidence-Based Analysis of AI Chatbots in Oncology Patient Education: Implications for Trust, Perceived Realness, and Misinformation Management". Journal of Cancer Education. doi:10.1007/s13187-025-02592-4. Retrieved May 19, 2025.

telegraph.co.uk

Field, Matthew (January 1, 2025). "Why the internet is filling up with nonsense 'AI slop'". The Telegraph. Retrieved January 3, 2025.

theatlantic.com

Tiffany, Kaitlyn (August 31, 2021). "Maybe You Missed It, but the Internet 'Died' Five Years Ago". The Atlantic. Archived from the original on March 6, 2023. Retrieved March 6, 2023.
Beres, Damon (January 27, 2023). "Death by a Thousand Personality Quizzes". The Atlantic. Archived from the original on June 21, 2023. Retrieved June 20, 2023.
LaFrance, Adrienne (January 31, 2017). "The Internet Is Mostly Bots". The Atlantic. Archived from the original on June 17, 2023. Retrieved June 17, 2023.

theconversation.com

"AI chatbots are intruding into online communities where people are trying to connect with other humans". May 20, 2024.

thedebrief.org

Whalen, Ryan (December 31, 2024). "'Dead Internet Theory' Looms as Meta Unveils Plans to Flood Facebook and Instagram with AI 'Users'". The Debrief. Retrieved January 2, 2025.

theguardian.com

Hern, Alex; Milmo, Dan (May 19, 2024). "Spam, junk ... slop? The latest wave of AI behind the 'zombie internet'". The Guardian. Retrieved September 28, 2024.
Hern, Alex (April 30, 2024). "TechScape: On the internet, where does the line between person end and bot begin?". The Guardian. Retrieved May 7, 2024.

thestory.au

Hennessy, James (December 18, 2022). "Did A.I. just become a better storyteller than you?". The Story. Archived from the original on June 16, 2023. Retrieved June 16, 2023.

theswaddle.com

Naraharisetty, Rohitha (October 31, 2022). "What the 'Dead Internet Theory' Predicted About the Future of Digital Life". The Swaddle. Archived from the original on March 6, 2023. Retrieved March 6, 2023.

theweek.com

The Week UK (September 27, 2024). "What is the dead internet theory?". theweek. Retrieved October 1, 2024.

time.com

"The A to Z of Artificial Intelligence". Time. April 13, 2023. Archived from the original on June 16, 2023. Retrieved June 16, 2023.

unsw.edu.au

Renzella, Jake; Rozova, Vlada (May 20, 2024). "The 'dead internet theory' makes eerie claims about an AI-run web. The truth is more sinister". University of New South Wales. Retrieved June 21, 2024.

web.archive.org

Walter, Y. (February 5, 2024). "Artificial influencers and the dead internet theory". AI & Society. 40: 239–240. doi:10.1007/s00146-023-01857-0. Archived from the original on February 8, 2024. Retrieved February 8, 2024.
Tiffany, Kaitlyn (August 31, 2021). "Maybe You Missed It, but the Internet 'Died' Five Years Ago". The Atlantic. Archived from the original on March 6, 2023. Retrieved March 6, 2023.
Dao, Bridgit (2023). The Metaweb The Next Level of the Internet. CRC Press. ISBN 9781000960495. Archived from the original on March 19, 2024. Retrieved March 1, 2024.
Mariani, Robert (2023). "The Dead Internet to Come". The New Atlantis. 73 (73): 34–42. JSTOR 27244117. Archived from the original on January 23, 2024. Retrieved January 23, 2024.
Gonzales III, Vic (June 28, 2023). "The Internet is Dead: The Truth Behind the Dead Internet Theory". Capiz News. Archived from the original on July 4, 2023. Retrieved July 4, 2023.
Hennessy, James (December 18, 2022). "Did A.I. just become a better storyteller than you?". The Story. Archived from the original on June 16, 2023. Retrieved June 16, 2023.
"Une théorie du complot affirme qu'internet est « mort » depuis 2016". Ouest-France.fr (in French). September 6, 2021. Archived from the original on March 6, 2023. Retrieved March 6, 2023.
Codreanu, Claudiu (2023). Policy Paper Nr. 35/2023: Departe de utopii și distopii. Impactul AI asuprasecurității cibernetice (PDF). Institutul Diplomatic Român. Archived (PDF) from the original on April 7, 2024. Retrieved April 7, 2024.
Gopani, Avi (September 6, 2021). "Conspiracy Theorists Says The Internet Has Been Dead Since 2016". Analytics India Magazine. Archived from the original on June 16, 2023. Retrieved June 16, 2023.
Naraharisetty, Rohitha (October 31, 2022). "What the 'Dead Internet Theory' Predicted About the Future of Digital Life". The Swaddle. Archived from the original on March 6, 2023. Retrieved March 6, 2023.
Felton, James (February 1, 2024). "Dead Internet Theory: According To Conspiracy Theorists, The Internet Died In 2016". iflscience. Archived from the original on February 26, 2024. Retrieved April 7, 2024.
Read, Max (December 26, 2018). "How Much of the Internet Is Fake? Turns Out, a Lot of It, Actually". New York:Intelligencer. Archived from the original on June 19, 2023. Retrieved June 19, 2023.
Griffin, Andrew (April 17, 2024). "Humans now share the web equally with bots, report warns amid fears of the 'dead internet'". Independent. Archived from the original on May 7, 2024. Retrieved May 7, 2024.
"Generative AI: a game-changer society needs to be ready for". World Economic Forum. January 9, 2023. Archived from the original on April 25, 2023. Retrieved June 16, 2023.
"The A to Z of Artificial Intelligence". Time. April 13, 2023. Archived from the original on June 16, 2023. Retrieved June 16, 2023.
"Improving language understanding with unsupervised learning". openai.com. Archived from the original on March 18, 2023. Retrieved March 18, 2023.
Hvitved, Sofie (February 24, 2022). "What if 98% of the Metaverse is made by AI?". Copenhagen Institute for Future Studies. Archived from the original on June 16, 2023. Retrieved June 16, 2023.
Tucker, Elizabeth (March 5, 2024). "New ways we're tackling spammy, low-quality content on Search". Archived from the original on March 9, 2024. Retrieved March 9, 2024.
Serrano, Jody (March 5, 2024). "Google Says It's Purging All the AI Trash Littering Its Search Results". Gizmodo. Archived from the original on March 9, 2024. Retrieved March 9, 2024.
Beres, Damon (January 27, 2023). "Death by a Thousand Personality Quizzes". The Atlantic. Archived from the original on June 21, 2023. Retrieved June 20, 2023.
Agarwal, Shubham (August 8, 2023). "AI is ruining the internet". Business Insider. Archived from the original on September 28, 2023. Retrieved September 30, 2023.
LaFrance, Adrienne (January 31, 2017). "The Internet Is Mostly Bots". The Atlantic. Archived from the original on June 17, 2023. Retrieved June 17, 2023.
"Bot Traffic Report 2016 | Imperva". Blog. January 24, 2017. Archived from the original on June 4, 2024. Retrieved June 4, 2024.
Yang, Angela (March 19, 2024). "Facebook users say 'amen' to bizarre AI-generated images of Jesus". NBC News. Archived from the original on May 8, 2024. Retrieved May 7, 2024.
Grantham-Philips, Wyatte (June 16, 2023). "The Reddit blackout, explained: Why thousands of subreddits are protesting third-party app charges". Associated Press. Archived from the original on June 21, 2023. Retrieved June 21, 2023.
Duffy, Clare; Fung, Brian (October 10, 2022). "Elon Musk commissioned this bot analysis in his fight with Twitter. Now it shows what he could face if he takes over the platform". CNN Business. Archived from the original on June 16, 2023. Retrieved June 16, 2023.
O'brien, Matt (October 31, 2022). "Musk now gets chance to defeat Twitter's many fake accounts". AP News. Archived from the original on May 5, 2023. Retrieved June 16, 2023.
"As Twitter's new owner, Musk gets his chance to defeat bots". CBS News. October 31, 2022. Archived from the original on June 16, 2023. Retrieved June 16, 2023.
Syme, Pete (June 13, 2023). "Elon Musk's war against Twitter bots isn't going very well. Next, you'll have to pay to DM those who don't follow you". Business Insider. Archived from the original on June 16, 2023. Retrieved June 16, 2023.
Picchi, Aimee (May 17, 2022). "What are Twitter bots, and why is Elon Musk obsessed with them?". CBS News. Archived from the original on June 16, 2023. Retrieved June 16, 2023.
Kay, Grace; Hays, Kali. "Elon Musk's own data scientists couldn't find many bots on Twitter, and he hid that crucial information, the company says". Business Insider. Archived from the original on May 29, 2024. Retrieved May 29, 2024.
Hughes, Neil C. (August 26, 2023). "Echoes of the dead internet theory: AI's silent takeover". Cybernews. Archived from the original on November 10, 2023. Retrieved November 10, 2023.
Keller, Michael H. (August 11, 2018). "The Flourishing Business of Fake YouTube Views". The New York Times. Archived from the original on June 19, 2023. Retrieved June 19, 2023.

weforum.org

"Generative AI: a game-changer society needs to be ready for". World Economic Forum. January 9, 2023. Archived from the original on April 25, 2023. Retrieved June 16, 2023.

worldcat.org

search.worldcat.org

Berry, David M. (March 19, 2025). "Synthetic media and computational capitalism: towards a critical theory of artificial intelligence". AI & Society. arXiv:2503.18976. doi:10.1007/s00146-025-02265-2. ISSN 1435-5655.