Pew Research findings suggest Dead Internet Theory may be coming true
Altruism7 · reddit · 2026-10-06
Pew Research findings indicate a growing share of online content may be written by AI bots, suggesting the "Dead Internet Theory" — the idea that genuine human-created content is being drowned by machine-generated material — may be coming true. CNET covers the findings, sparking discussion about the quality of the web's content ecosystem.
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