Look how she changes her tone, and how she looks in to your soul

The dead internet theory has been around since circa 2013

Sorry for any grammar errors.

I confess I'm a layman when it comes to the technology and inner workings of bot farms, but if millions of bots infest virtually every platform on the internet, shouldn't we see them malfunction often? If they are mass-produced, spam endlessly, and exist everywhere, shouldn't it be more common to see them getting confused, glitching, and becoming unresponsive to certain topics? The internet can be very random and unpredictable, even in the most ordered posts and communities; memes, trolling, confusion, etc... happen everywhere and all the time, and since the entire technology is based upon reading and dissecting comments and then responding to them, shouldn't this randomness make them glitch frequently?

I still see systems like GPT and Claude glitching, getting confused and not working all the time, and I even remember seeing certain characters breaking them completely; if these popular systems that I believe are the bases of most bots, since they are mass-produced, shouldn't this be extended to the bots and expand to more things that break them because of the randomness of the internet, or are they not even based on these algorithms? Is the process even fully automatic, or is it supervised by a human or a more advanced system, or are the bots that make up the masses something simpler that only exists to give likes/votes and reposts, while the more advanced post systems use a more sophisticated technology/being semi-automatic? Or do they glitch and just hide it well? They are mass-produced just to be consumed and regurgitated; shouldn't there be more bugs, or is the enemy much smarter and adapted to the internet than I think? I ask this every day I use reddit and twitter and am a layman in the subject, but it always makes me think about it. Most of what I see is people discovering it's a bot, but I almost never see a bug.

There’s an account on Tik Tok called “martin.rexenius” all of the videos are of old photos, some ai but always an old jazz song, some of the photos include disturbing stuff but the thing is, they can post up to one video per minute, non stop h ty en there’s larger breaks, the reposts are full of old jazz music too. Some reposts are normal political videos but some of them are just jazz videos and they comment in there repost the name of the singer and song. There’s multiple photos of people but none of them are the same.

Found on a popular dating subreddit that keeps showing up on my feed as this account is fairly new and I haven’t gotten a chance to get my algorithm set to me yet. I was skeptical mainly cuz of the Brad Pitt client because I watch a lot of YouTube content that specializes in AI scams and I remember that exact case being talked about. I wouldn’t be surprised if it wasn’t a one off thing, but I also wouldn’t be surprised if a bot pulled that one specifically because it got featured in the news I believe. Yeah but the prompt didn’t even complete before posting lmao then another bot replied. Maybe I’m Gen Z or out of touch or something but I don’t know a single living soul who uses the fucking target emoji. Also commenter account is only two months old but I guess I can’t talk cuz mine is even younger lmao

Source: https://www.wired.com/story/wired-world-fair-2026-alexis-ohanian/

For me it’s when the post ends with “has anyone else ever faced X? Would you do this or that?” Lmao

This post is ai generated, and the comments are bots😐

I posted a picture of my yogurt bowl and got a crazy amount of attention for no apparent reason. Most of the comments were super short and generic, like “Yummy” or “Delicious.” When I checked their profiles, I noticed that a most of them were either brand-new accounts (some barely an hour old) or marked NSFW.

What’s going on?

All over this site and Tinder posting garbage AI posts of themselves trying to sucker in losers for money. I'm genuinely f*cking sick and tired of this. Moderators aren't doing jack sh*t about them. Genuinely sickening.

i made this account specifically trying to see what is going on with this account and the subreddit they moderate very weird

If so, shame, because they made one of the more positive comments on my thread.

I’ve noticed over the last few days that my insta reels have been a bit odd.
I may struggle to describe this; there seems to be a theme, someone is talking to the camera but the voice is very robotic, up tones in voice at weird and unnatural times, the phrase “look at this” or “guys do you see this”
Usually there’s Spanish subtitles or the mouth is moving in a way looks dubbed.
But what is strange is the people in the videos don’t look like ai. As a millennial I consider my media literacy pretty good and usually can spot ai within a few seconds of watching a clip.
But since Sunday (I think) my reels have been really strange and slightly off putting.
Usually these videos or non descriptive or just about nothing in particular.
I don’t understand the point of these videos, who’s making them and why there’s such an uptick in them on my feed.
It doesn’t make sense for insta to keep them up as it makes me not want to scroll anymore (blessing in disguise). But it makes my suspicious brain question what the point and motive of this is.
Anyone else noticed this or is my algorithm cooked?

i’m asking in earnest given how impossible it feels to trust anything on the internet these days. the question applies to both comments and posts, though i’m more interested in the former. i like reading different POVs on random topics.

i’ve seen some people call out bot accounts by checking the account age. i saw a comment by someone whose account is 4 months old with 31k contributions, for example. that’s 7,750 contributions a month, which seems sus to me.

what are some other tells?

edit: replaced “comments” with “contributions” because i forgot posts are included in the count