AI slop is flooding the internet, bot traffic exceeds humans, and the author says the internet can be reinvented
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AI-generated slop content is pouring onto the web in large quantities, and bot browsing traffic has surpassed humans. Based on this, the author argues that the "dead internet theory" has become reality—that is, interactions on the web are mainly produced by machines rather than real people. However, the author sees this as a turning point: for the first time, mainstream platforms no longer hold sway, creating an opportunity to reimagine the shape of the internet. The author takes two projects, wewere.online and playhtml, as examples to explore embedding a sense of human presence into the browsing process and making any website a real-time shared space. These projects are currently only the author's directions of exploration, and the report does not give their actual effects.
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The author argues that as AI-generated content floods the web and bot browsing surpasses human activity, care-made human creations and small personal web spaces feel more important than ever. They suggest AI and automated browsing create an opening for new collective visions of the web, and describe their projects wewere.online and playhtml, which bake human presence into browsing and let any website become a live shared space.
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