Glad to be here, witnessing the death of the internet as we know it here together. I’m pretty sure most of you are real so let’s enjoy the show together before we all go outside again!
As the internet lay dying I wondered if I should be crying A great gift to mankind is losing it’s mind
Should we stay? Said the friends we made along the way
Who are we without web? But who, is the web without the we?
Even as we grieve and leave
Remember.
There is no web without the we And where we go the web will be
Are you real?
Well Yes!
AI is utter shite at poetry. Its the only proof of humanity I can convey over text except for swearing to show my humanity
It’s very good at slightly changing the phrasing of existing poetry and passing it off as an original poem
I’m not real
I’m a figment of your imagination
That’s a different lemming.
Gone like Geocities.
Yes it sort of feels like online ecosystem collapse. Between all the insincerity, ads and slop. Very few online places feel alive :(
The Great Unpluggening!
I think the Internet will persist, but the public spaces on the Internet will ba treated like people treat the tabloid magazines at the grocery store checkout. Unused and largely ridiculed.
I expect invite-only microcommunities will thrive though.
You are right my friend. But i’m afraid that this might be at odds with annonimity online. These micro communities might look a lot like this, just more restrictive on the user registration side.
I can imagine that we may have a federated community of human verified forums. Where you have to go to the computer club at least once to get a forum account.
Anyways, the death of online truth and authenticity gives us a tremendous opportunity to reinvent what online contact should look like. But inevitably, it will be more outside and less online I think.
Pretty crazy there’s no PKI in place to verify photos, videos, or text. We just need apps to verify signatures and tell users about the origin. Memes can remain unsigned, but veritable information should always be traceable to a source.
E.g. I’m more inclined to believe a video sourced by AP (sent to me by whomever) than one posted by the white house twitter without signature.
That would either be terrible for right-to-repair on cameras, or be easily bypassed. And I don’t even know what PKI would mean for text.
I don’t mean cameras. I’m thinking of easy to use signature apps that allow anyone to authenticate sources and you get to decide whether you trust the source or not. The forward from klandma wouldn’t be sourced or maybe by klan news, while you could disregard any “oh my god I’m in the hospital please send monies” picture that isn’t signed.
That’s a really good and reasonable idea, which is why I’m absolutely sure it will never happen 😢
Just turn away from your phone screen and go outside. There is an entire non-AI world to explore and steward.
Maybe 2026 is finally the year of touching grass.
I’ve been getting back into my favorite childhood TV shows and finding some good library books. No AI slop there. 🙂
I love the library too! I’m always happy when I’m in there.
Hard same. ❤️💕 I’ll support the public library any and every chance I get as long as they keep serving the public good.
There was a brief window before this mess where we used to be unsure if things were cake or not, I long for those simpler times.
It was all a test all along.
Take a bit out of a person to see if they are made out of linear algebra.
Wait till your phone start generating fake photos of your past to gaslight you
Hell, any digital journals you keep could be a fake one replaced by AI
Wait are you saying i wasnt holding Flamin’ Hot Cheetos™ right after my childs birth?
You weren’t yet
Soon you will have been
STOP GIVING THEM IDEAS
Is this AI?
This is why I accept everything as true.
ye, worst outcome would be that you compliment a little baby whos to stupid to have their own thoughts on their “work”. but who really cares about them, it is still better to falsely accusing an actual artist of using ai.
Can you feel it? You won’t be able to tell soon and that means you’ll just need to plug in like the Matrix. Then it won’t matter right? Everything will be constructed. While the billionaires play in the real world. You’ll be plugged in but you’ll be a billionaire in your own world. You’ll have the same thoughts, feelings, experiences except they will be “fake”. You just better hope that no one turns your shit off, otherwise reality is hell.
Or you know unplug. Touch grass. Cottage core.
one of the reasons for all the visual LLM garbage is because it’s good enough to make you question, and by questioning they know it’s causing an unnecessary stress. Eat the slop and enjoy it. Fighting it won’t stop it.
It’s insidious and makes us question everything now.
We’ve been doing it for decades with photoshop.
You’re saying that as if it was a long time…
I’m more of a Simmental than a Hereford, but the sentiment’s spot on.
Obligatory “Mood”
Isn’t that the plot of Inception?
