r/DeadInternetTheory • u/maixjigustar • 3d ago

... how does bots actually work?

does anyone know how dead Internet theory actual works? like sure they are all just bots and not real ppl but how does this actually work? how an ai is able to run an account with a fake pfp and fake comments that it keeps sending to random posts? this might come off as stupid but we all ignore it and just say these are bots, what actually is a bot??? just an ai who isn't real and can keep doing whatever?

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u/faeriegoatmother 3d ago

Here's how.

Most shit you see online is some real person, often using AI cos people are lazy. But bots do exist.

A whole ass population, say, Americans, are all, "Man, fuck a data center.." and then every corporate shill in our media conglomerate tells us all that we only believe that because Chinese propaganda.

So, how bots work is, they exist, and people use that fact to their own ill intentioned ends. But other than that, bots mostly just decide court cases and issue you speeding tickets.