[red-iron-pine]

> But they won't know because when you look for reviews, the review websites will also be generated just for you, filled with AI-made reviews and users. The entire internet will just be a computer that guesses what you want and shows you its best guess as the truth. a little matrix-y.

dead internet theory -- the idea that the internet will eventually be mostly or entirely bots talking to bots

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Internet_theory

[elkhadiy]

Very interesting! Bots roaming freely generating content and manipulating consumers sounds like early stages of the net beyond the BlackWall in the Cyberpunk universe post DataKrash. (just in case someone might be interested in sci-fi reading on the subject)

[checkyoursudo]

There won't be any consumers on the net to manipulate though. Our bots will be buying counterfeit junk off of shady e-commerce giants, but at least we will be out enjoying art, sports, and nature, because all the bots will be doing all the work as well anyway.

[Workaccount2]

It tickles me that somewhere out there on some forgotten instance in a dark corner of some massive data center, there is a #IndieMovies chat channel still running on some long forgotten college kid weekend project, and in that are two early gen chat bots that have been going back and forth for over a decade now, and will continue to for the next 20 years.