{"id":195945,"date":"2025-06-19T02:09:16","date_gmt":"2025-06-19T02:09:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/195945\/"},"modified":"2025-06-19T02:09:16","modified_gmt":"2025-06-19T02:09:16","slug":"catherine-prasifka-the-internet-is-dead-and-were-haunted-by-the-ghosts-of-bots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/195945\/","title":{"rendered":"Catherine Prasifka: The internet is dead, and we\u2019re haunted by the ghosts of bots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">The \u2018dead internet theory\u2019 has more than a grain of truth to it, so how much of our understanding of the world is a construct?\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Are there any human hands on the online agendas? Stock image: Getty\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/04d173a3-597c-44f1-9b23-e21c9c650ced.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Are there any human hands on the online agendas? Stock image: Getty<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Have you ever seen something online that gave you an uncanny, eerie feeling, as though something you cannot pinpoint was amiss? Maybe it was an obviously AI-generated image that no one in the comments seems to notice. Or the same phrase popping up again and again in posts on X, seemingly real people parroting each other.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The dead-internet theory is the idea that the internet is now mainly populated by bots that mimic human interaction and that organic human connection has been replaced by algorithmically curated feeds. The internet is now \u201cfake\u201d. What you are seeing is no longer touched by human hands, and once you realise it, like a glitch in the matrix, suddenly you become aware of the simulation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The \u2018dead internet theory\u2019 has more than a grain of truth to it, so how much of our&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":195946,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3161],"tags":[3082,714,53,16,15,79651],"class_list":{"0":"post-195945","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-internet","8":"tag-internet","9":"tag-joe-biden","10":"tag-technology","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom","13":"tag-x-formerly-twitter"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114707599577651135","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195945\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}