First surfacing in 2021, the “dead internet theory” is the idea that the future internet will be largely driven by autonomous ...

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman hinted that he's coming around to the dead internet theory in an early September post on X. His company ...

Heard the rumors that the internet has been replaced with bots and AI content? Here's the dead internet theory explained, including possible motives.

But Altman's post raised another question for a lot of users — what is dead internet theory anyway?

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman wrote a tweet about the dead internet theory and was instantly informed that he was part of the problem ...

Are we just talking to bots? The 'dead internet theory' resurfaces as AI-driven traffic overtakes humans online.

“i never took the dead internet theory that seriously but it seems like there are really a lot of LLM-run twitter accounts now,” wrote Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, last week on X in his typical ...

Alright, pal, you wanna keep reading? Why don’t you tell me which of these pictures does not have a stop sign in it?

Everyone should be clamoring for tools and features that block AI content. And for content companies, blocking AI slop is ...

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman hinted that the dead internet theory may not be a conspiracy anymore, owing to the rise of bot accounts on X.

Sam Altman, the chief executive of ChatGPT creators OpenAI, has suggested that there might be some truth in the “dead internet theory”. The idea is a conspiracy theory that the majority of content and ...

Open AI CEO Sam Altman speaks during Snowflake Summit 2025 at Moscone Center on June 02, 2025 in San Francisco, California. Credit - Justin Sullivan—Getty Images “i never took the dead internet theory ...