I suspect there will still be online interactions with humans, just more interactions with bots. Unfortunately, it’s we humans behind the mess. Even if we pass laws to stop it (or even forced labels of “I’m a bot” on bot accounts), some people won’t play by the rules. So the change is going to happen. We can try to persuade the public, but we know how well that works:

So what do you propose be done about it?

So change means “dying”? So every time a tadpole evolves into a frog, a tadpole dies? Should we have protest signs that read, “FROGS KILL TADPOLES! DOWN WITH FROGS”?

Bots are increasing. But the Internet is not dead/dying, just changing. Many of the “The 10 bots are posting a total of 1000 times a day.” are repost bots merely parroting human generated content.

I wonder, though, if this will cause the scrapers to be impacted by the reposters or other AI generated content.

But is the Internet dying? The thing it doesn’t say is if the human participation is dwindling.

To keep it simple, I’ll work with small numbers. Imagine there are 10 humans online. Now imagine 1 bot on online. Bots are 9% (1 in 11) of this imaginary online community. A year later, those same 10 humans are still online, but there are now 10 bots online; the bots are 50% of the community. This statistic can lead you to think there is less human participation when nothing happened to the humans. The difference is the raw number of bots. This is what I believe is happening, about the same number of humans, just an increasing number of bots, scraping, posting, etc.

X/Twitter is dying because of mismanagement.

“Hi! I’m Clippy! It looks like you’re trying to play Halo. Let’s take you to the Store so you can purchase more DLCs…”

But I just want to play Halo…

“Yes, but the DLCs will make it better!”

But I’m happy with what I already have.

“Oh, look, here’s the store!”

Nice to meet ya, John. My name is Nunya Bidnez.

“Windows 7 appears to still be running on at least 100 million machines, despite Microsoft ending support for the operating system a year ago”

–Tom Warren. Jan 6, 2021.

https://www.theverge.com/2021/1/6/22217052/microsoft-windows-7-109-million-pcs-usage-stats-analytics

Maybe the landfill won’t be overstuffed as quickly as expected.

See also

“Monthly market share held by Windows operating system for desktop PCs worldwide from January 2017 to November 2023, by version” https://www.statista.com/statistics/993868/worldwide-windows-operating-system-market-share/

It’s a dwindling effect, not just instant abandonment.

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" As long as there is organic carbon in the soil for the microbes to break down, the fuel cell can potentially last forever.”

It’s also a stationary battery

“Although the entire device is buried, the vertical design ensures that the top end is flush with the ground’s surface.”

Most seem to be gone, but I found one: https://www.amazon.com/complete-information-provided-provide-context/dp/B0C5X1GXPH/ref=sr_1_40?qid=1705212380

If the autogenerated art becomes too close to copyrighted art, then you’ll have humans suing AI generators.

George Harrison’s My Sweet Lord is very similar to He’s So Fine by the Chiffons. And that was an easy case. But some cases in requires deeper analysis, such as Lana Del Ray’s Get Free.

In January 2018, singer Lana Del Rey claimed that Radiohead were suing her because of alleged similarities between their 1992 debut single Creep, and her song Get Free, from her 2017 album Lust for Life. The band’s publishers Warner/Chappell subsequently denied taking legal action, but did confirm requesting credit for “all writers” of Creep.

The Guardian spoke to a professional composer to analyse the songs, who noted that the chords used are rare in pop music, and the melodies bear an uncanny resemblance, although in conclusion “imagined the similarities are unintentional”.

https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20190605-nine-most-notorious-copyright-cases-in-music-history

If AI is sampling, then how do you defend it being unintentional? While all Radiohead sought was credit on the writing (in this case), would humans (whose livelihood is being threatened) be so generous with an AI composition? And if the music industry is threatened by AI, they will lawyer up.

Fair enough,

The authors may be dead, but they did exist. The work had an author.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_Term_Extension_Act

If you’re going to use a character some human ever created, hire a lawyer. The House of Mouse has their own lawyers.

The fact that AI can produce this is impressive as to where we have come with AI. But can this actually threaten human artists?

In the United States, a federal judge ruled in 2023 that AI artwork cannot meet federal copyright standards because “Copyright law is ‘limited to the original intellectual conceptions of the author’.” With no author, there is no copyright.

~~https://www.makeuseof.com/copyright-rules-ai-art/~~ See u/[email protected] 's article below.

“The answer will depend on the circumstances, particularly how the AI tool operates and how it was used to create the final work,” the office said.

Under current US law, that song is probably now in the public domain. If the law changes, that could mean that in the future, music charts potentially could be filled with AI songs. As it stands, this is most-likely a public domain music machine cranking out music that anyone can use royalty-free. It depends on the interpretation of the courts.

Apple cider (especially with a cinnamon donut).

Eggnog.

Vivek Ramaswamy, “We need a border wall with Canada.”

The total length of the continental border is 3,145 kilometers (1,954 miles). From the Gulf of Mexico, it follows the course of the Rio Grande (Río Bravo del Norte) to the border crossing at Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, and El Paso, Texas.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexico–United_States_border

The Canada–United States border is the longest international border in the world. The terrestrial boundary is** 8,891 km long**. The land border has two sections: Canada’s border with the contiguous United States to its south, and with the U.S. state of Alaska to its west.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada-United_States_border

In 2005, there were 75 miles of fencing along the border. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexico–United_States_border_wall

also from that article:

In October 2023, Biden announced he is restarting wall construction due to the surge of migrant crossings

In 18 years, the U.S. hasn’t finished building a sufficient wall with Mexico.

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He knows he’s got 8 years at best, right? We’ll be fighting Klingons in space long before that wall is finished.

If you do this, you make the streams very cross. Which gives us our latest slogan

• Home Taping Is Killing Music
• Don’t Copy That Floppy
• Beware of Illegal Video Cassettes
• Don’t Cross The Streams

Not all. Not on desktop. You can use it with the IOS app. I asked it

ĉu mi povas uzi la komputilon? (which is Esperanto for “Can I use the computer?”) and without skipping a heartbeat, it replied back in Esperanto,

Jes, vi povas uzi vian komputilon. Kiel mi povas helpi vin? (“Yes, you can use your computer. How can I help you?”)

Some bots I tolerate, others not so much, so I block those. The ones that just mine another site for any new content, I block, as I could just go to that site and read it. The piped.video bot that provides an alternate to youtube (when the piped.video link actaully works) I allow, because Youtube will eventual defeat my work around. So it’s more personal taste.

I have posted correct information like that on Reddit and have been downvoted for providing sourced information. That really discourages my participation. Why try?

I have to brag on Lemmy.world.

This place is friendlier, and a much better place to interact with others. Oh, there’s still a down-vote brigade, but it’s much smaller.

Reddit may still have a huge user base, but it’s becoming facebook-esque; that is, people go to it because they know it, and nothing else. This place is so much better.