Reddit Cofounder Ohanian Says Much of the Internet Is Now Dead (businessinsider.com)

> Even your group chat isn't safe, though. Some texters have begun using AI to generate and edit their messages, bringing another level of bots to the forum.

AI is here to stay so it's not helpful to call it dead. AI allows people without eductional opportunities growing up or those writing in a language other than their native language to express themselves more accurately.

"much of the internet is dead [so come to my internet]"

why did the rest of the internet die? part of it was because we kept splitting the pie over and over.

didn't reddit start out as a mostly fake-user site?

https://www.msn.com/en-in/news/India/reddit-faked-its-first-...

> The Reddit cofounder referenced "dead internet theory," which asserts that there is more bot activity than human activity on the web

It's depressing. Not just the slop, but the knowledge that there's still a ton of good stuff out there that is completely buried in favor of slop.

It makes places like this all the more valuable.