S3/E3: Meta Made AI Friends So You Don't Have to Make Real Ones

Meta has started giving its AI assistants profile pictures, bios, and posting schedules, and Dead Internet Theory is back with a vengeance. We covered this in Season 2, but it deserves a revisit because the landscape has morphed like the Duneiverse. The original theory was that bots had already taken over. The new version is that the line between synthetic and real is being deliberately blurred by the platforms themselves, which is more specific and more troubling. Let's look at how synthetic users actually behave by becoming one and try to farm some engagement at scale. Plus, did I fool a bot into thinking I'm its overlord? Meet my new friend and see how I get it to tell me things it shouldn't.

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