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The tone of this article is a bit much, but fitting I suppose.

That said... the "dead internet conversation" has been going for a while. Current versions tend to be "gpt . I kind of think LLMs may just replace a lot of internet media, without the contrivance.

We still don't know how or if people will accept AI therapy, friendship, art or whatnot. Where or why being produced by a person matters. Online media (HN, reddit, twitter, etc) seems like the easier entry point. People like their friends and therapists. Most seem to hate the online media we are addicted to.

Is an LLM generated subreddit, to your tastes and interests something we would read? I suspect yes. It's a quicker sell, if you are replacing something people hate.

Media transitions (as we are already experiencing) have a lot of good and bad disruptive potential, typically. I'm beginning to suspect "media" will be LLMs' first major disruption.

   Pre-1990s : Early internet era
   1990s -2005: WWW/Nerd era 
   2005-2020 : Unwashed Masses era
   2020-present: Dead Internet era
   2025? : Custom content era