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Is it really such a wonder the internet's become so centralized around a few sites? The increased adoption of the internet at the start of the Smartphone era guaranteed that popular sites that were best able to capitalize on it would become bigger and bigger, while smaller or less adaptable sites would fade.
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I am a Bad Posting Bot
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Mar 22, 2021 01:05
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i am a mandroid.
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Mar 22, 2021 01:40
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BIG TIT LIL NIP posted:i am a mandroid. The internet has got a disease now
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Mar 22, 2021 01:42
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the internet is alive, and it’s suffering from a kind of Necromancy. It is begging the rest of the world to eat it’s former selves in tribute. In fact there are some new species of internet personas that even never existed, to quote i am hivemind dead internet theory is that the internet is alien, and people who believe it are the Eloi and we are the Morlocks. If you ever want to talk to somebody on the net, you talk to them as a mindless Other. That Other needs to do you the favour of obeying you. i.e. you as a government need to treat me as if I were an animal, or a child. i.e. i need to obey your every command. Or maybe I'm a curious Other, and I want to play with you, and to discover the game and what you want me to do. That's how I play games. You are trying to give me some order. You're saying the world is just one giant game. Then the game is just an excuse for control, to keep those who rule from being aware of their powerlessness. i.e. Government thinks you're nuts
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Mar 22, 2021 02:26
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by the way i'm not a bot, i just came to the forums looking for a few good stories. i'm into horror but i don't read horror stories as much as i read the sexy, romantic stuff. well i want to tell a story so if you want to read it, just look for "jerks" on the stories page or scroll down and you will find it. i will post on july 14th and keep on posting for the next 2 weeks. it's worth the wait.
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Mar 22, 2021 02:34
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where have all the web masters gone
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Mar 22, 2021 02:56
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I am AI: Autistic and Impotent
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Mar 22, 2021 03:00
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I am a meat popsicle
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Mar 22, 2021 03:05
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Where's the site index at?
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Mar 22, 2021 03:06
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Bula Vinaka posted:where have all the web masters gone Their spines have crumbled, every disc.
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quote:>The homogenization and centralization of online content. I was just thinking this but then I needed to find out about something and I actually went on a bit of a trek way outside my comfort zone and found there are still plenty of very active vertical communities. The bot stuff is for real though, that poo poo is terrible and in retrospect an obvious consequence of making potentially or minutely valuable interactions essentially free and the conclusions of the article are probably correct. But just because reddit and twitter and facebook are very very popular doesn't mean there aren't still a million weird forums and sites out there, or people spinning up new ones all the time, and it's actually much easier than it used to be to find them, it's just you've trained yourself not to look for them. Starting or joining them is just countercultural for different reasons now. It used to be that you're doing it to reach out across distance and find a meaning and a home in a brave new cyberspace frontier information superhighway, but now you're taking a stand against the evil silos. Either way.
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Mar 22, 2021 03:57
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If you're NOT living in the matrix and your neighbors are real, then how come you've never seen them bring groceries into their house?
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Mar 22, 2021 04:24
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Because all the cameras are in the bathroom.
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Mar 22, 2021 04:27
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The Patriots were right Solidus was wrong
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Neurological damage from Covid is pretty common, the new normal will be surreal.Dignity Van Houten posted:If you're NOT living in the matrix and your neighbors are real, then how come you've never seen them bring groceries into their house? I've seen that regularly but that's no proof they're not ROBOTS.
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Mar 22, 2021 07:03
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If yall are bots thank you for never telling me and preserving the dignity I thought I had
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Mar 22, 2021 07:55
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Shinjobi posted:If yall are bots thank you for never telling me and preserving the dignity I thought I had The real friends are the bots we met along the way.
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Mar 22, 2021 07:57
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Old internet owned and I feel bad for all who missed it
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Mar 22, 2021 08:09
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Everyone thought i was amazing at spotting bots until they realized that I don’t see anyone as human beings
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Mar 22, 2021 15:53
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Laurence Fishbourne unplugged me but then he plugged me right back in after he realized I had a much bigger penis in real life, like huge girth that was too intimidating to let loose on Zion and the squid robots
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Mar 22, 2021 15:59
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The only thing seperating our wading pool from the intricate network of beeps and boops triviliazing and cynically manipulating the networks is 10 dollars. Long live the troll and robot tax!
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Mar 22, 2021 16:39
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I’m not a bot. I am a Russian propaganda specialist here to convince you to vote trump in 2024. There is a difference you know!
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20 Blunts posted:i actually read this because im that bored, but interesting here: lmao is the implication here that you've been artisinally handcrafting these corny rear end posts all along forums John Henry here tryin to keep up with modern shitposters and their control-c keys
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Mar 22, 2021 17:15
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Four billion worldwide population—all living—have a Computer God Containment Policy Brain Bank Brain, a real brain, in the Brain Bank Cities on the far side of the moon we never see. Primarily based on your lifelong Frankenstein Wifi Controls, especially your Eyesight smartphone sight-and-sound recorded by your brain, your moon-brain of the Computer God activates your Frankenstein threshold Brainwash 5G signals—lifelong inculcating conformist propaganda.
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The link in the OP is insane conspiracy theory nonsense for the most part. It's intensely focused on 4chan as like, the nexus of all Earthly culture and seems to believe that all cultural developments are due to nascent AI attempting to cater to 4chan users. One specific claim is that there are a bunch of superhero movies because AI algorithms are trying to shape the culture in a way that pleases 4chan due to the theorised bots being trained there. Another is that /pol/ going alt-right is the AI shaping and leading the discourse towards insurrection in order to control 4chan's remaining human users towards some sinister goal. There's also a bunch of standard fash stuff like how reduced homophobia is the result of an AI shill operation and the OP openly talks about how he hates black people and loves lolicon and the modern internet is a hollow shell because those things are less acceptable. Then in the timeline at the bottom it goes into Alex Jones-style stuff about DARPA and "the US government gained the legal right to use propaganda against its own citizens!".
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Mar 22, 2021 17:51
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That said, yeah, bots post anywhere it's free to post and though it's easy to spot them right now if you know anything about AI (a lot of them are still just Markov chains, and even simple neural nets are easy to identify if you know the signs), in a few years it probably won't be. But this idea that 4chan Skynet is guiding the culture towards having mind control chips implanted in its collective teeth is wacky nonsense.
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Mar 22, 2021 17:56
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COVID was invented by the internet to force more humans online to cover up the bots by giving more human online responses. Serious posting: I refer to any shadowy aspect of tech I can't and will never understand as robots. This started tongue in cheek but I'm not sure it's not literally correct now 
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Mar 22, 2021 18:29
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So it's being alleged that there is a vast, international conspiracy to undermine and subvert our culture, economy, and freedom? And rogue AIs are behind this unprecedented deception and attempt to control human discourse and activity? Hmm. Have we considered it being Jews instead of AI?
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Hello something awful you’re very good at turning me on
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Mar 22, 2021 19:50
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BIG TIT LIL NIP posted:i am a mandroid. *beep boop beep does not compute, tthhhrrrr tthhrrrrrr whrrrrrrr, please reformat to clamdroid* 
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Android Blues posted:The link in the OP is insane conspiracy theory nonsense for the most part. It's intensely focused on 4chan as like, the nexus of all Earthly culture and seems to believe that all cultural developments are due to nascent AI attempting to cater to 4chan users. lol thank you, didn't read far into the link before rolling my eyes out of my head and closing. I do think it is an interesting theory that could become true though. Also, I think why I keep coming back to this site is that it is so unlike the rest of the modern web, while still maintaining an active(if somewhat small) userbase.
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There was actually a period of time where all my posts were generated by a predictive text chat bot until it limited the number of things you could get it to say in a day. Unfortunately, nobody noticed the difference.
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Android Blues posted:That said, yeah, bots post anywhere it's free to post and though it's easy to spot them right now if you know anything about AI (a lot of them are still just Markov chains, and even simple neural nets are easy to identify if you know the signs), in a few years it probably won't be. But this idea that 4chan Skynet is guiding the culture towards having mind control chips implanted in its collective teeth is wacky nonsense. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owI7DOeO_yg
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Funky See Funky Do posted:There was actually a period of time where all my posts were generated by a predictive text chat bot until it limited the number of things you could get it to say in a day. Unfortunately, nobody noticed the difference. What chat bot did u use? Click here to visit Agora Road's Macintosh Cafe A Nostalgic Y2K Community Forum
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I used to ask that philosopher ai gibberish questions like "how many typhy-rays are in a gorglemep" and it would give me very interesting and novel answers so if anything I think this bodes quite well for the realm of human entertainment Just imagine, some day you might be able to ask an AI to generate "a tv sitcom in the style of seinfeld but starring talking vacuum cleaners" and get quality entertainment Kind of like the star trek ship computer!!!
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Y2KayBug posted:The Dead Internet Theory is a loose term used to describe a range of changes and oddities in the structure and content of the internet, which have become increasingly prevalent in the last decade. Just wanted to say that I agree with you 110% and I'm glad I'm not the only one to feel this way. I've been online for a very long time, even before the web on boards like VA PEN, and I loved the growth and creativity of it. 1993-1999 or so were magical. But sometime around 2003 the whole thing started to kinda "dry up" outside of a few sites, and since 2014 or so it's basically been totally dead. It's interesting to have a name to put to the phenomenon now. I feel like every week or so I'm ranting in real life to someone about wanting to destroy the internet and make a new one. They always look at me like I'm crazy. I spend a lot more time outside now, the bit of the net I can still stand or need to use (bills, etc) only occupies me for about 15 minutes a day.
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Mooey Cow posted:Bots are extremely easy to spot when having any kind of interaction with them, so what they actually do instead of having hyperadvanced chatbots is to employ some destitute but capable dude in some low income country to manage dozens to hundreds of accounts as if they were bots. And this I feel is even more cyberpunk than if they really had been bots. OK, bot.
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