PhysicsForums and the Dead Internet Theory

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An exposé no one will read, about the widespread falsification of user posts in PhysicsForums, a scientific community founded in 2001. This is a microcosm of the death of the human-written Internet.

Technology @lemmy.world

nahostdeutschland @feddit.org

16h ago

old specialized forums have started backdating millions of LLM-generated posts

PhysicsForums and the Dead Internet Theory

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Technik @feddit.org

nahostdeutschland @feddit.org

16h ago

alte Webforen werden mit zurückdatierten LLM Posts verseucht

PhysicsForums and the Dead Internet Theory

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"The content was produced with the idea that it was mine in some capacity, inextricably tied to an identity I owned."
Forum owners have been appropriating users' content since CDDB took their users' contributions, sold it, and locked their contributers out. Reddit is but the latest abuser to get publicity.
But hijacking usernames and adding ai content under that username? That's a new low.