It's impossible and probably not worthwhile to distinguish between Dead Internet caused by intentional destruction vs Dead Internet caused by click farming. The same system that would support intentional destruction is the one driving the click farming.
Well with intentional destruction they are more likely to target even things like non-profits, and independent wikis. Which click farming would not effect as that is mainly for making money and wouldnt bother with platforms that lack monetization.
Can you imagine a teenager with 6 gb of vram deciding to vandalize wikipedia? i very easily can. Just as i can imagine creating a net of websites saturating seo with sheer volume to get some clickfarming money. The problem, largely speaking, is there is monetary incentive to do second thing, very clear one.
And, if i were cia analyst, my data of local group activities or whatever will also get polluted to shits when this proliferates to other languages.
I remember when I first heard this dialogue on release I thought it was pseudo intellectual psychobabble.
...it makes more and more sense year after year and it scares me.
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
Tlön, Uqabar & Orbis Tertius becoming real.
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