What portion of the internet is fake?
First published: Saturday August 30th, 2025
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What portion of the internet is fake?
Before ChatGPT, a lot of online traffic used to come from bots pretending to be humans. But today I've went to few sites and it feels like many websites look like they were written entirely by AI.
Even when I visit Instagram, photos of models feels slightly odd - too perfect at first, but small details, like earrings in the wrong place, give them away (and I'm a photographer). Most forum posts and comments often have a robotic, chatbot-like tone which annoys me. What's even worse, more and more “influencers” also seem to be fully AI-generated.
I'm starting to believe - much of the internet today is run by machines, not real humans.
A lot of techno-lovers laughed at Hayao Miyazaki when he described AI as “an insult to life itself.” He emphasized that machines cannot grasp the depth of human emotions and experiences that are integral to authentic art.
Like Miyazaki, I believe, if AI keeps churning out creative work, we will see a flood of content - e.g. podcasts, blogs, videos, songs, films, you name it. But more won’t mean better. And somewhere in the flood, the human touch may vanish so I've got a very bad feeling about it.
I fear the inevitable has already happened.
And don't get me started on what is listening to our conversations. Just recently I was discussing with a friend, solely on a cell phone, about a shed he was buying. Within a few hours I had ads for sheds all over my Facebook feed.
I have also had similar when talking face to face with my mother-in-law (not sheds, she doesn't need one!), she has a smart speaker (Alexa), I was getting ads for items we talked about and it wasn't my speaker!
Not saying using AI to make a quiz is a bad thing, but when it's literally something you could do yourself that's when it becomes a bad thing.