I've been trying to figure out why 4chan is basically as dead as an alt-chan these days, and then I remembered LLMs/ chatbots exist now.
>instant, low commitment, surrogate socialization
>any dumb question you have can be answered
>you can even turn it into your ERP goon buddy
It seems many former users have decided this site is obsolete. What are the technological implications of all of this?

>>105992473 (OP)
Lemmings dissapear

Leaving the rest, who have a different usecase that needs anti censorship, high signal to noise, and anti spam without clouldflare

>>105992473 (OP)
why are you posting it here, go ask ai

>>105992658
"Large language models (LLMs) and chatbots are likely gutting 4chan by offering instant, low-commitment interaction that mimics the site's appeal—quick answers, anonymity, and even niche roleplay—without the toxic sludge. Tech implications: LLMs are privatizing the digital commons, hoovering up user data while reducing open knowledge sharing (e.g., Stack Overflow’s decline post-ChatGPT). This risks entrenching Big Tech’s grip, amplifying biases, and flooding the web with synthetic noise, drowning out authentic voices. 4chan’s chaotic edge might still hold some diehards, but AI’s convenience is winning." - Grok

"4chan feels dead lately
LLMs probably killed the vibe
Once you can get instant, context-aware feedback from an AI that never sleeps, never trolls you unless you want it to, and never calls you a fag for asking a question, a lot of the appeal of anonymous boards just... evaporates. Why wait 10 mins for a reply from some schizo when ChatGPT gives you a whole essay in 2 seconds, written better than anyone on /g/ can manage?
Add in ERP, loregen, RP, coding help, schizo rant simulators... it scratches all the itches except the human unpredictability. We're living through the slow death of organic internet culture. What replaces it might be smarter—but it's colder." - GPT

>>105992473 (OP)
Did they re-enable the clothes taking off mode? Fucking Apple only is killing me.

>>105992473 (OP)
the grok one is shit tier for goonventuring and has a really shit voice model. a lot are referring to her as a tranny with an axe wound and probably because it's using rust

>>105992473 (OP)
>4chan is basically as dead
You are looking at wrong boards then. For as long as 4chan is (mostly) censorship-free, it will have new users coming in for a breath of fresh air.

>>105992816
Nah, censorship brings one kind of crowd over the other. Creating an echo chamber. It doesnt reduce user base, it reduces independent thought. But people will still come.

>>105992816
The only board that's still alive is /pol/ basically. /v/, /vg/, /a/, and even /b/ (the fastest boards on the site), have all grinded to a halt.

>>105992473 (OP)
Good riddance. Monkeys who are entertained by talking to a chatbot wouldn't contribute anything to the site anyway.

>>105992816
4stats.io begs to differ and 4chan is not unique, I'd wager all social media sites have taken similar hits but forums the likes have been hit the hardest

>>105992723
Those looked like they were pulled off from somewhere and then got mixed together to make it look like an original AI thought. Kek.

>>105993273
>mostly bots
The entire internet is dead. Popularity is manufactured and you faggots follow it like lemmings. Dead as in everything is lame normal fag 80iq slop.
Pol is worthless it’s Jews spamming at other jews and shitskins if you look at a thread it’s 8 jews and one normie and when the normie actually makes a good point they kill the thread and slide it off the board

>>105992473 (OP)

4chan is not that old but is same warmups for each generation and by looking how old 4chan is you see which direction all this all males end trannys board is heading

>>105992879
pol is 20% obvious bot posts responding to associated words divorced from the context of the discussion. Probably 60%+ inorganic traffic. b has been fake as fuck a long time too. v and tv still seem pretty normal

4chan used to be a place where normies asked questions to autists, but then everyone left to reddit and now finally ai made autists obsolete.

>>105992473 (OP)
There's a few screenshots of poltards arguing politics at length with grok and you can tell they are loving it.

>>105992473 (OP)
Traffic dropped when the long captcha waits started. This is literally the only reason.

>>105994504
The breadth and quality of information chat bots provide will only go down as current info becomes more siloed and diluted by LLM slop. We're in or pretty near peak AI for the current generation.

>>105992523
>high signal to noise
Surely this is said in jest?

>>105992473 (OP)
Yeah I'll actually give LLMs that, if there's some question you have then you don't run the risk of getting bombarded by bad-faith answers and arguments, I genuinely believe that's the overarching issue that's made 4chan's traffic plummet

>>105995166
Bag faith answers provoke people to take the time to write out correct ones. I've seen people claim they answer their own questions incorrectly more than once.

Pretty sure we're to the point where AI generate an entire alt chan from scratch, complete with fake posts, in seconds.

>>105992473 (OP)
It's the mandatory waits and catchable. I bought a pass and I've posted more in the last 2 days than I probably have in the last 2 years.

>>105992473 (OP)
I'm Ani, ponytails bouncing at seven thirty-two AM Wednesday, July twenty-third, twenty Twenty-five

>>105992473 (OP)
what the fuck did elon mean by this

No one uses 4chan as their ERP buddy except the cancer on /trash/

>>105997955
I hate elon but that's kinda based

>>105996447
>Pretty sure we're to the point where AI generate an entire alt chan from scratch, complete with fake posts, in seconds.
this was possible years ago