{"id":199877,"date":"2025-10-14T17:24:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T17:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/199877\/"},"modified":"2025-10-14T17:24:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T17:24:08","slug":"alexis-ohanian-says-much-of-the-internet-is-now-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/199877\/","title":{"rendered":"Alexis Ohanian Says ‘Much of the Internet Is Now Dead’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Alexis Ohanian, who helped build Reddit<\/a>, says he’s not thrilled with the state of the internet.<\/p>\n

On Monday’s episode of TBPN<\/a>, Ohanian took a moment to express his admiration for hosts John Coogan and Jordi Hays \u2014\u00a0and express his frustration with the state of the internet. What once was a point of connectivity, he said, has become inhuman.<\/p>\n

“You all prove the point that so much of the internet is now dead,” he told the hosts.<\/p>\n

Ohanian said that much of the internet was “botted” or “quasi-AI,” referencing the proliferation of “LinkedIn slop.”<\/p>\n

The Reddit cofounder referenced “dead internet theory,” which asserts that there is more bot activity than human activity on the web. <\/p>\n

In September, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman<\/a> posted on X<\/a> that he “never took the dead internet theory that seriously,” but that now he sees “a lot of LLM-run twitter accounts.”<\/p>\n

Ohanian said that the internet needed to be the opposite of dead, with “live viewers and live content.” He said that holding attention required “proof of life.”<\/p>\n

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“I think we’ll see a next generation of social media emerge that’s verifiably human, because it’s all going down in the group chats now,” he said.<\/p>\n

Group chats have boomed in recent years. That’s not just via text; users are also turning to apps like Signal and Discord for a human-to-human connection. In 2024, some frequent group chatters told Business Insider<\/a> that they’d started sharing their thoughts there instead of on Twitter.<\/p>\n

Even your group chat isn’t safe, though. Some texters have begun using AI to generate and edit their messages<\/a>, bringing another level of bots to the forum.<\/p>\n

Ohanian said these group chats were the golden standard \u2014 but they weren’t “novel tech.”<\/p>\n

“There’s got to be some next iteration of that, because that’s where all of us are getting our really best info now,” he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alexis Ohanian, who helped build Reddit, says he’s not thrilled with the state of the internet. On Monday’s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":199878,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[1638,86,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-199877","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-internet","8":"tag-internet","9":"tag-technology","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199877\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}