in 2001 something happened that changed this world forever that's right my family got a new computer in the computer room let's go and yeah you heard that right we used to respect the computer dedicated a whole room or corner to It Slam that heavy piece of plastic on the most obtuse entertainment center you've ever seen and you were ready it only had like 128 megabytes of ram but that sweet beige Cube took me on the adventure of a lifetime and to balance it out it threw in some nightmares too the internet and its infancy and
even later on in the early 2000s really was an information explosion that nobody was prepared for websites journals photos news forums games anything you could ever dream of was here okay well it's not here just yet give it a second I hold on it's almost there I loved it we all loved it I was raised on it met my friends on it found my passion for art on it and planted the seeds of my career on it but that version of the internet the human first version many of us fell in love with is now
dead and the final nail in the coffin was [Music] AI you may have heard the phrase dead internet Theory it started as goofy a cringe n NE baby conspiracy posts like 10 years ago on 4chan about government control and whatever the else they talk about there but one consistent talking point was Ai and the massive digital bot Invasion and replacement and since the 2020s rolled around the definition has changed to Simply mean that most of what you see interact with consume and spend your time with on the Internet isn't human or made by humans or
even regulated sourced reviewed and monitored by humans it's just an AI there to steal your time money or emotional well-being the dead internet Theory tells us that the inter as we currently know it is a graveyard of human bones and Relics weaved together with wafer thin circuit boards and what really sucks is I don't think we can call this a conspiracy theory anymore I completely see it and agree hi hey isn't this channels uh supposed to be funny why are you giving me a panic attack right now cuz I think there's actually a way we
can kind of fix this or at least bring ease to this transitional period but before that let's dive deeper into the problem at hand you can even call this a hand hey has anyone ever told you at that AI art actually it sucks has anyone ever told you how bad this is before not the quality mind you no no no that's pretty good now but the short and long-term ramifications of a theft based scraping system where human creativity is the gunpowder of the bullet that is used to kill us no well this news will surely
brighten your day artificial image generation isn't just getting better it's being perfected AI will never be be able to make fingers here you go yep video generation is making Decades of progress every week music and voice replication is becoming more believable by the hour and images of real people doing fake things are now not just believable to your aunt on Facebook they're believable to you okay uh maybe not this one I mean how could anyone okay some people are okay why how does anyone believe this is real and if you think you're immune to being
tricked by a generative piece of AI media for the last 10 or so seconds I haven't been speaking this voice is an AI trained on my actual voice okay back to the real me or is it everybody knows AI art sucks and that it steals from hardworking artists that already struggle to be seen at all but deep fakes are even worse and non-consensual generated explicit material of a real human being is that of the literal devil we all know generative AI is bad for us so I'm not going to stick on this topic for long
because I know that you know but what happens when a human first internet becomes a dissimulation first internet when most of the videos we watch are either AI generated or AI assisted and recommended by an AI algorithm on a platform where most of the views comments and traffic are mini chat GPT Bots well that's not a fantasy that's the reality right now okay strap in because this is where I put aside all my usual flowery language for raw terrifying data on Twitter during the Super Bowl over 75% of the traffic was Bots and and on
a normal good day almost a quarter of the accounts are Ai and yet they create a far higher disproportionate amount of content and interactions nearly half of all internet traffic is completely fake now 80% of political discussion is nonhuman and specifically crafted to piss you off for engagement bait or misinformation YouTube is open about reaching a point where fake views outweigh real ones Reddit Instagram Facebook the Google ads and the e-commerce store they send you to are all fake oh God how could this get any worse this video is sponsored by factor I got you
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off plus free shipping on your first Factor box that's code 50 Circle Tunes at factor75.com [Music] Hey kid what can I get you I don't know man I guess an answer to an obscure blender question and uh maybe make a list of tourist attractions and generate a map based on proximity and efficiency and I guess generate me some code for my website maybe the worst thing of all is AI is really useful chat GPT single-handedly course corrected the information age forever and you know what I like chat GPT it's enticing quick and addicting and now
it's been integrated into literally everything so you can't escape it websites phones laptops softwares customer service oh man I wonder what else better ask chat GPT I bet it'll make me a whole list in seconds it's undeniably useful but at what damn cost sure I've saved a few minutes here and there but the framework of this has been used to crush humans and human first digital architecture we know have a landscape where our creations and thoughts are curated by an AI to post on an AI driven website for AIS to spam comments on so AI
ads can lie about their impression data and sell us AI generated products this AI has disturbingly been the cure to its own self-inflicted virus a digital self-fulfilling prophecy example Google barely works now I mean it's so good I love you YouTube please don't take away my paychecks I have a family because it's either filled to the brim with Aid driven ads or it's breaking its own legs with its own sad form of AI where it's objectively incorrect 50% of the time hey Google can I drink poison yes uh only if you're really thirsty with how
awful Google is half the time if I want to Google something I Google that thing in chat GPT and get a way better result instantly God damn it they got me by the balls the generated slightly crooked balls and I think one of the worst gut punches in all this is that the Internet is just less fun now the genuine reward of effort has been replaced with the fleeting satisfaction of quick results it's no longer an option to trust anything or believe in the images you see I would bet my bank that you've seen some
genuine handmade Art online and at first went uhuh is this Ai and scanned its contents looking for mistakes or artifacting just to real iiz that those weirdly drawn hands or not perfect background is what makes human First Art human and that you didn't just judge a book by its cover you were programmed to do so it sucks it really really sucks I think the world will eventually view the pre-ai internet era similarly to how we currently perceived the world before the internet's existence and this one's dumb but you know what really blows before if you
saw some weird ass art of I don't know Shrek and Mike wasowski making out straight sucking down tongue you knew someone sat down for possibly hours or days and made that piece now you just type in anything you want and yippe yay it's there it's not even funny anymore because the literal punchline of the joke was that a human took the time to do it and now if someone does sit down and make something like this the humor is completely lost because the medium is so saturated with quickfire prompt garbage why would you make something
like this when you can easily just generate it for a quick half-ass Discord chuckle okay uh I swear to God this just happened while recording this I got a ad made with AI in the goddamn mail I can't even get away from it off screens I'm going to lose my mind oh I'm going to lose my mind I'm going to lose my lose my goddamn mind I'm going to lose my [Music] mind all right no more dooming no more brain slop we can't just lie down and let a handful of Rich Tech nerds inject our
occipital loes with Robo juice that scares us and makes us go we've always had Bots scammers smart algorithms and even photo generators in some cases but nothing like this nothing this smart nothing this easy nothing this accessible chat GPT was truly the point of no return we can never go back and we never will go back but there are some things we can do not only for our community but for ourselves support creators and websites even smaller websites that have a proven track record of producing original human generated content and that actively oppose AI generated
glunch take a break from scrolling and make something and if you got to watch stuff use detection tools and learn how to spot AI generated content and click off as fast as you can don't put yourself in positions to fall for AI stop arguing with random morons online that probably don't even exist and stop sharing Tik Tok AI voice garbage that was probably made by some content farm and do some legit research and practice internet literacy how to spot an AI image or hear an AI voice and help out the older folks in your life
they find it even harder to tell and they're the primary target of this style of slop and I know this one is mostly out of our control but push for regulation I mean even the early adopters are saying themselves that they should have been regulated and fear what could happen if we don't soon and if you're going to use it which I don't think is that crazy given this new fast-paced landscape use it in ways that uplift your human creativity make it Bend to you don't become complacent and throw your hands up and let it
do all the work there are creative ways to use it go on websites you used to love make things used to love to make watch play read and contribute away from the massive super monopolized corporate AI integrated hell apps and when you do make that thing do what AI could never do take your time with it fall back in love with the effort not the result the hours you spend doing something are worthwhile in and of themselves it's not impressive that these things can do it in seconds it's a stain so pick up the damn
pen and draw the single eye and the way those Green Ogre hands caress it and no deep in your soul you've created something only a human truly could
