The dead Internet theory is a conspiracy theory which asserts that since around 2016 the Internet has consisted mainly of bot activity and automatically generated content manipulated by algorithmic curation, as part of a coordinated and intentional effort to control the population and minimize organic human activity.
My thought:
To be honest, I have mixed feelings about this. I'm sad because all of the things we see on the internet are now AI-curated content. I miss the imperfection side of the web when it was really cool, but on the other hand, I'm also getting excited because soon people will move on from the internet because it is flooded with bot and AI-generated content and realize that there's life outside the screen.
Soon, we'll see that our phones and computers are just tools, not part of us.