Sam Altman is worried online. A few days ago said in x that the Dead Internet Theorybut now it seems to him that many Twitter accounts are controlled by Bots. The thing was not there. He also criticized that some posts in Reddit seem written by an AI. His messages have unleashed a wave of answers that remind him of something obvious: he has played an important role in all this. In addition, what presents us as a genuine concern would have other hidden reasons.
Dead Internet. The first message arrived last week, as they say in Futurism. In him, Altman said he was starting to be taken seriously This theory which states that the current Internet is dominated by bots, AI and content generated by algorithms, instead of humans. Their answers were filled with mockery, such as This user who answered by imitating the chatgpt style or those that sent him This meme With the text “we are trying to find the uncle who did this.” The publication has 3,000 responses and many of them point to him as one of the culprits that the Internet is full of bots and content generated by AI.
A real problem. Although the concept of the dead internet is a conspiracy theory, the problem of the bots is very real, and if not tell Elon Musk when he bought Twitter. According to Data from the Cybersecurity Company imperviousin 2023 49% of the Internet traffic were Bots. With the arrival of AI the thing has worsened and In your 2024 report They confirm that the figure had increased to 51%. In other words: there is more bots traffic than humans. In addition, 37% of these bots are used for malicious purposes such as the creation of news and false content. And not to mention Ai Slop that is flooding the network.
“It feels Fake“ Returning to Altman, yesterday He shared his sensations After reading the Claude Code Subnetditin which several users praised Codex’s capabilities, the OpenAI code assistant, almost as if it were the best that has happened to them in life. Although it is something that benefits its product, Altman said they seem posts written by an AI and that, both Twitter and Reddit, they feel very false lately. Among the possible reasons, Altman believes that people are starting to speak as if they were IAS, although obvious that the AI models have trained to sound like us and, more specifically, Reddit itself has been used in training of many of them.
Altman also mentions a possible case of “Astroturfing“, a tactic that is used to generate artificial opinions that are passed as real to give a false impression of support or rejection of a product. Altman ensures that they have previously suffered it and that is why it is” very sensitive “with the subject.
Hidden reasons. As they point out in TechcrunchAltman’s sudden obsession with the bots, the dead Internet and especially the Astroturfing It would have a goal: to sow doubt about the opinions issued about their products. With this, the idea that the wave of criticism of users after the launch of GPT-5 They were not real. Some Users in Reddit They also point to another possible reason: that the rumors of OpenAI’s social network Be true and what Altman is looking for is to subtract credibility to his competitors.
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