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Dead Internet Theory (2021): https://forum.agoraroad.com/index.php?threads/dead-internet-...

  TL;DR Large proportions of the supposedly human-produced content on the internet are actually generated by artificial intelligence networks in conjunction with paid secret media influencers in order to manufacture consumers for an increasing range of newly-normalised cultural products.

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The Internet Is A Potemkin Village: Proof Of Dead Internet Theory? Source URL: https://forum.agoraroad.com/index.php?threads/the-internet-i...

  We should certainly be asking what on earth has happened to the undoubtedly millions of pages of content that people have created over the years about the various aspects of, dangers, and sentiments around climate change. Are they actually there somewhere, in the background, but for some reason inaccessible through Google search? Are they really just gone? We should also be asking: why would Google want everyone to think there are hundreds of millions more results out there than there actually are? In both politics and economics, a Potemkin village is any construction (literal or figurative) whose sole purpose is to provide an external façade to a country which is faring poorly, making people believe that the country is faring better. Is Google Search - the foundational product for a company worth $1682 billion in July 2021 - really just a Potemkin village for either the US as a country, the Internet, or Google itself?

Source URL: https://forum.agoraroad.com/index.php?threads/the-internet-i...

Not a falsifiable theory, but I believe it anyway.

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