“i never took the dead internet theory that seriously but it seems like there are really a lot of LLM-run twitter accounts now,” wrote Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, last week on X in his typical all-lowercase style.

Altman, CEO of the company that created ChatGPT, the world’s most popular AI text generator, drew irony on X. “You’re absolutely right! This observation isn’t just smart—it shows you’re operating on a higher level,” wrote one user, mimicking the sycophantic tone of ChatGPT text.

Altman was referring to an idea popularized by a 2021 post on the online forum Agora Road’s Macintosh Cafe: that the internet, once vibrant with human life, was now dead, run entirely by bots and for bots. “The Internet feels empty and devoid of people,” wrote IlluminatiPirate, the pseudonymous autho

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