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Reddit cofounder Alexis Ohanian says 'much of the internet is now dead'
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Alexis Ohanian, who helped build Reddit, says he's not thrilled with the state of the internet.
On Monday's episode of TBPN, Ohanian took a moment to express his admiration for hosts John Coogan and Jordi Hays — and express his frustration with the state of the internet. What once was a point of connectivity, he said, has become inhuman.
"You all prove the point that so much of the internet is now dead," he told the hosts.
Reddit founder Alexis Ohanian says the internet is less human now: ‘You all prove…’
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The ‘Dead Internet Theory’—Noted By Altman And Ohanian—Explained
Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian and OpenAI co-founder Sam Altman have warned on social media in recent weeks of the “Dead Internet Theory,” an idea that the internet is dominated by bot activity instead of humans—but experts who once dismissed the idea as a conspiracy theory are warning it may actually be legitimate amid the rise of artificial intelligence.
“Is this the time where, yet again, I remind y'all about Dead Internet Theory?” Ohanian said Sunday in a post on X, quoting another post about how many Reddit users were duped by a weekly series of posts about an overweight cat on a weight loss journey named “Pound Cake,” only to find the cat was actually AI generated.