Is this AI? I can't tell. I kinda like it and I really hope it's not.
this post was submitted on 16 Feb 2026
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Dead internet theory is coming true
Of course it's The Picard Maneuver o7
I miss Alfred too 😔
The bubble is taking too fucking long to pop
Did you know that a very strong magnet can severely damage or destroy most computers?
You can just stop using content-aggregation websites like reddit, youtube or twitter.
Seriously, it's hard at first because you have no idea how addicted your brain is for content and information about the world, but after a few weeks you will settle back into how you were in the before times, and may even have a desire to sit and watch a whole TV show or movie without scrolling, or you might even read a "book."
(Books are these things that have "content" encoded in text on sheets of pressed wood cellulose, ask your grandparents about them. Side effects include enhanced imagination, retention of knowledge, images and ideas forming spontaneously in your mind, and simulated experiences that create actual emotional responses.)
You won't miss out on anything, I promise. Our species has existed for thousands of years without you knowing what's going on, we will continue to exist for millennia without you knowing what's going on, just read up on your local political candidates when election season rolls around and you're golden.
I know you're 100% right, but does Lemmy/Piefed count?
Yep, basically anything that delivers new "things" to you that requires a level of updating and re-engagement over and over with a sense of looking for something that's interesting to you, especially including anything that supplants socializing with comments on the internet by random strangers.
I feel like it was different in the days when we just read a morning newspaper, because it wasn't all interesting or relevant to us, it was just informative and you got "today's concerns" and then set it down and used it for kindling or bird cage lining later. There was no need to pick it up again and see if anything changed.
Here we train our brains to feel like they're going to get "interesting stuff" on demand, and it creates an expectation for that dopamine reward over and over, so whatever you read that doesn't give you that feeling becomes less interesting. This is why so many of us can't finish a book or sit through a movie, it's just conditioning.
Yes
You know it's hopeless when people AI generate cat video doing normal cat thing.
I saw a TV ad where they AI generated a man sitting at a kitchen counter looking at his phone for about 5 seconds. There was absolutely nothing wild about the scene, just a person sitting there being human. Rather than pay some random real guy a small amount of money, they AI-slopped it. It was thankfully obvious that it was AI, but it just seemed so unnecessary.
Do you remember which ad? You’ve got me curious now.
I think you underestimate the cost of shooting a real guy sitting at a table. Casting, lighting, filming, makeup, props, location, color correction all cost money. And I probably forgot about a few things. Film is ridiculously complex.
You're downvoted but you're right. AI slop will never replace the world's best musicians, artists, writers or actors-but it can definitely replace entry level, unimaginative, stock-footage type stuff. And then the creative arts die from the bottom up. In a few decades the artistic world might look a lot more like how it did centuries ago, with the content makers largely being privileged and connected people because it's so much harder to work your way up from the bottom.
Oh. You make an excellent point.
I want back the slop made by humans. It was slop but had a soul.
Guess it's time to return to the outdoors.
It's all privatised land, no 3rd spaces, awful architecture used to stack tiny homes together and concrete hellscapes. They've enshitified outdoors too. Find some grass to touch while It's still free.
It's definitely not all privatized land. Show me where you live and I'll show you some outdoors to experience.
The internet is becoming so grossly corporate anyways that if AI is the thing that finally pushes us all back outside maybe it’s ultimately a good thing. There’s only so much recursive enshittification a person can take before they walk away. We really saw the golden age of the internet come and go, sad to see it happen
It’s ok, at some point you won’t have to ask because the answer will always be yes.