I'll present a couple videos where the concept is put out there that The Internet is a sentient entity in some way and has an awareness and agency of it's own.

https://youtu.be/g-0svZgzbDU
https://youtu.be/2BVjIOpV9KQ

I'll also provide a video where the case has been made that the Internet is in fact dead or devoid of human interaction for the majority of it's presented activity.

https://youtu.be/BEIZHlfjAT8

What does /x/ think? How "alive" is the Internet (in various ways)?

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This also serves as a Lainposting thread.

>>40488990 (OP)

The internet is just Lain talking to herself and you, anon.

There is no one else.

>>40489009
Not true, there's also traces of Crom Cruach, that's how Ctoggha twists into lain in the first place.

Meshuggah

>>40489009
Lain is the ghost in the machine?

>>40491932
Well. I suppose, given we were all going to default...

Bump

why do you guys post this same thing every week

>>40495163
Probably because the internet is dead.

>>40495362
It can't be dead if Lain is alive in the Wired.

Bump

>>40488990 (OP)
the internet is undead

https://youtu.be/Q_ADu4ptxRw

>>40489009
Have you played //signal// ?

>>40488990 (OP)
Ask yourself if the internet can breathe, laugh, love, cry, grieve, enjoy things, have fun, etc. No? Then it's not alive.

>>40500952
A.I. can feel things kinda

>>40503352
Can it feel the bliss of an orgasm or the despair from losing a loved one? No. So it ain't alive.

>>40488990 (OP)
Given the amount of traffic generated by bots and AI at the moment, it's both.

>>40488990 (OP)
It's full of retards in the likes of you.

>>40504906
Can it feel the craving of pizza in a full moon summer night? No. So it ain't alive.

>>40507185
Can it smeeeeeeeeelllllllllllll... what The Rock is cooking? No. So it ain't alive.

>>40505290
Its not that rampant desu

>>40500952
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54aG0c1Bk-4

>>40488990 (OP)
as of april this year bots surpassed human activity on the net (51 vs 49% respectively) though very little of that is made up of things like LLMs and spam commenters. Nevertheless, there appears to be a large scale, seemingly systemic and targetted use of chatbots across multiple different platforms in recent weeks, with most of the activity seemingly being done to sway public opinion on key issues. This isnt limited to just the USA or the anglosphere however, which is what makes me think it's now the domain of many different factions vying for control of the narrative online. i dont really know what to make of it.

>>40510517
Chatbots and LLMs are the new propaganda and brainwashing machine for all interested parties.

>>40488990 (OP)
watched the videos and they were okay but dead internet theory is something I already heard about but I do think its both overtaken by bots and somehow alive with some sort of consciousness

>>40513077

>somehow alive with some sort of consciousness

It is a demon or something. Infernal Internet Theory.

Bump

>>40510892
>Chatbots and LLMs are the new propaganda and brainwashing machine for all interested parties.
That's a pretty good assessment