00:00Is the internet dying because of AI? That's no longer a far-fetched conspiracy theory.
00:05Major tech companies confirm there is a risk. Around 35% of newly published English websites
00:12are already AI-generated or assisted. What happens when most of the internet is written by machines
00:17and AI starts learning from itself? Even if you don't read English content,
00:22the effects could reach every corner of the web. Can the internet die?
00:27The dead internet theory makes a bold claim. Bots and AI-generated text are flooding the web to the
00:34point it becomes useless. Automated bots now generate more than 60% of all web requests,
00:41according to internet infrastructure giant Cloudflare. And the pages these bots are scraping
00:45are increasingly AI-generated. Nearly 10% of recent dot-com pages show clear signs of AI authorship,
00:54according to Pew Research Center. And here's where it gets interesting.
00:57Tech giants know this could become a problem. Recently unsealed court documents show that
01:03executives at Microsoft and OpenAI are explicitly aware of a potential doom loop triggered by their
01:10AI chatbots and search engines. Ironically, this doom loop also endangers Big Tech's current
01:17business model. At the moment, AI tools scrape human-made articles and extract summaries.
01:22Users get answers without clicking on the original source. And Big Tech gets user data and ad revenue.
01:29Critics say AI risks becoming a parasite on the web, feeding on human-created content while weakening
01:36the websites and creators it depends on. If that continues, AI could end up damaging its own food source.
01:43Okay, but what does that mean for us users? In the long run, this might make online information
01:49unusable. Take the news. When you search for information online, there's a growing chance
01:54you're reading content created by AI. More and more publishers put out AI Slop. They use AI to rewrite
02:01existing reports. But because AI is making mistakes, the results can include so-called hallucinations, errors,
02:08errors, and awkward phrasing. Search algorithms reward speed and volume. So this low-cost AI content often
02:17outranks original reporting. It's pulling readers and ad revenue away from real newsrooms. Eventually,
02:25AI models will end up retraining on these AI-generated news articles, locking us into a feedback loop that
02:31permanently degrades the web. Now think about health tips online. If trusted health outlets shut down
02:38due to lost revenue, future AI models will generate health tips based on whatever low-quality content is
02:44left online. Clips like this. Snack on me instead of chips. And remember those numbers from the beginning?
02:51Because most AI models are trained primarily on data in English, this gets even worse for other languages.
02:58When flawed English articles get auto-translated into Ordu, Spanish, or Hindi, it leaves even more room
03:04for hallucinated errors and dangerous inaccuracies. So what can you do to stay well-informed? First,
03:13don't blindly trust convenient AI search summaries. If you use them, click through to primary sources,
03:20verify who wrote the piece, and then double-check the information. Second, support human journalism.
03:27Consider subscribing to a local paper or supporting journalists in your town before the real creators
03:31give up. What's your take on the dead internet theory? Is the web dying or is it just changing?
03:37Let us know in the comments below.
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