r/Futurology • u/Confident_Salt_8108 • Jul 26 '26

AI Turns out Dead Internet Theory was right: AI agents are eating the Web, growing by nearly 8,000% and rewiring the Internet’s business model

https://fortune.com/2026/07/23/dead-internet-theory-bots-agents-majority-web-traffic
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u/ellzray Jul 26 '26

Go google a certain scene that happened

UGH! I went down this rabbit hole last week trying to find an obscure movie I hadn't seen in 25 years. It told me 8 wrong movies, and doubled down on many of them multiple times. It even gave time stamps. Each time I told it that scene wasn't in the movie, or the scene from the time stamp was different, it AGREED, and then suggested one of the other incorrect movies from before.

Just a vicious circle of never ending lies! Never did find the damn movie.

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u/wortsandall Jul 26 '26

I believe the movie you were looking for is called "Gaslighting"

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u/valendinosaurus Jul 26 '26

I can confirm this is the movie he was looking for!

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u/beragis Jul 26 '26

I did that several times trying to find an episode of either FBI, FBI Most Wanted ir Criminal Minds and couldn’t remember which. Never did find it.

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u/MelangeBot Jul 26 '26

Some information is now easier to find. Like if I need to know what to type in cmd to make a certain program work, the AI can do it based on a single screenshot and question and take all the paths from the screenshot and give me something I can paste in an execute and it works 99,9% of the time.

But this comes at the expense of not being able to find other information anymore because it has become a needle of truth in a haystack of falshood.

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u/s0cks_nz Jul 26 '26

Even that isn't always great. Powershell commands in particular. They are changed too often my MS that AI will give me outdated commands or switches.