The Death of The Internet (As You Know It) with Jag Sharma, Jen Campbell, Jason Kapadia and Matt Webster - E92
The internet as you know it is dying - let’s hope what replaces it is good for humanity…
With bots abundant on the web, Meta and Google in an AI employment war, and AI generated content harder to spot, it’s more important than ever to know where to look for something REAL.
Don’t miss the very real Jag, Jen, Jason and returning Matt Webster on Disconnected, as they prepare you for an almost-fully automated future, for better or worse.
This episode of Disconnected covers:
The Dead Internet Theory rising in prevalence with AI's growing dominance
OpenAI and Meta’s tech talent war
Google’s AI-powered search summaries disrupting the ‘blue link economy’
Elon Musk's move to ban hashtags from ads on X
The challenge of advertising with such a high percentage of bot traffic
Episode Highlights:
“OpenAI are going into shutdown to let their team recharge - they’ve been working 80+ hour weeks.” - 8:30 - Jen Campbell
“The best talent wants to work with the best teams, because AGI will be one of the last main engineering tasks humans get to really work on.” - 11:50 - Jason Kapadia
“AI needs the power. Kind of feels like being the bloke in the old steam engine of a train, the one that just has the shovel and chucks the coal in. It's like that's what the human race has been demoted to.” - 15:25 - Matt Webster
“The Dead internet theory, which basically claims that the internet will become more and more bots focused rather than people” - 17:20 - Jason Kapadia
“More and more I'm seeing content where it's I start to question whether it's AI generated, and also what the purpose of it is” - 20:30 - Jen Campbell
“The bots have kidnapped my mum... these people raised us. What has the internet done to them?” - 26:00 - Jag Sharma
“Almost $100 billion in the coming year is going to be lost in ad fraud, to bots. So the financial incentive is so big for these guys to use AI to just generate so much content and overwhelm the algorithm with its AB split testing.” - 38:05 - Jason Kapadia
Links & references:
Jen Campbell:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jennifer-m-campbell/
Jason Kapadia:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jasonkapadia/
https://www.instagram.com/jasonkapadia/
Jag Sharma:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jagsharma
https://www.instagram.com/jagsharma/
Matt Webster