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A True Story of Dead Internet

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The term Dead Internet Theory has been floating around lately. The main gist is that as bots have become more prevalent, they’ve started to replace human interaction online. One might think that computer-generated content would be easy to spot, and in many cases you would be right. However much like how ChatGPT became very adept at creating banal HR dribble, it proved less that AI is capable of human speech, but more so that HR isn’t able to generate content that advances beyond basic predictive text.