Sam Altman’s comment that the internet could be “dead” echoes a once-fringe theory that bots, not humans, are now shaping the ...

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 ...

Dead Internet Theory originated on the fringes of the internet as a mix of conspiracy and satire about the rise of automation and digital manipulation. The theory suggests that most activity online is ...

The big thinkers at Aperture explain the eerie theory of a dead internet.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Much of the internet still runs on human traffic, but more and more it’s beginning to feel less human. As AI-generated posts, bots ...

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman hinted that he's coming around to the dead internet theory in an early September post on X. His company gave the world ChatGPT—the large language model (LLM) fueling the epidemic ...

A big conversation is taking place right now about how much of the internet is actually still human. People have been circling around this topic for a long time, but Reddit co-founder and CEO Alexis ...

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“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 ...

Open AI CEO Sam Altman speaks during Snowflake Summit 2025 at Moscone Center on June 02, 2025 in San Francisco, California. Credit - Justin Sullivan—Getty Images “i never took the dead internet theory ...