I’ve heard of it being a problem online but I never got a clear explaination of it, if my definition is correct it would explain a lot of things on certain places.
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Answer: It’s a conspiracy theory that *basically the entire internet* is, and has been for some time – or has *always been -* generated by bots and AI. Including, probably, your question and my comment.
This is *different than* the recent wave of AI bots, because it started being a theory a long time before high-quality generative text AI (like ChatGPT) that could plausibly generate that much human-seeming text.
While there always has been a certain amount of machine-generated text online, there’s never been any evidence or strong reason to believe that “its’ all fake” which is what the DIT proposes. In cases where it’s really “bots talking to bots,” like on a lot of Twitter (X) threads, it tends to be pretty obvious.
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