🤖 **互联网内容泛滥“类AI”：** Reddit联合创始人Alexis Ohanian认为，当前互联网充斥着大量机器人或“类AI”生成的内容，这使得网络体验变得不那么真实和人性化。他特别提到了“LinkedIn slop”（领英上的低质内容）作为例证，并指出这种现象已成为一个普遍问题。

📉 **“死亡互联网理论”引关注：** Ohanian的观点与“死亡互联网理论”不谋而合，该理论认为网络上机器人活动已远超人类活动。尽管OpenAI CEO Sam Altman曾对此理论持怀疑态度，但近期也承认看到了大量由大型语言模型（LLM）运行的推特账号，这增加了人们对互联网真实性的担忧。

👥 **呼唤“可验证的人类”社交媒体：** 面对日益泛滥的AI内容，Ohanian预见将出现下一代“可验证的人类”社交媒体平台。他认为，真正的连接和有价值的信息正越来越多地发生在群聊等更私密的交流环境中，这些空间提供了更具真实性的人际互动。

💬 **群聊成为信息获取新阵地：** Ohanian指出，群聊（包括文本消息、Signal和Discord等应用）正在成为人们获取真实信息和进行深度交流的新兴场所。尽管群聊本身并非“新颖技术”，但其作为人类连接和信息过滤器的作用日益凸显，甚至用户开始利用AI辅助生成和编辑群聊消息，进一步模糊了人与AI的界限。

Alexis Ohanian said that the internet is less human now, and much more "quasi-AI.""I think we'll see a next generation of social media emerge that's verifiably human," he said on TBPN.Ohanian mentioned the "dead internet theory," which Sam Altman has also recently referenced.

Alexis Ohanian, who helped build Reddit, says he's not thrilled with the state of the internet.

On Monday's episode of TBPN, Ohanian took a moment to express his admiration for hosts John Coogan and Jordi Hays — and express his frustration with the state of the internet. What once was a point of connectivity, he said, has become inhuman.

"You all prove the point that so much of the internet is now dead," he told the hosts.

Ohanian said that much of the internet was "botted" or "quasi-AI," referencing the proliferation of "LinkedIn slop."

The Reddit cofounder referenced "dead internet theory," which asserts that there is more bot activity than human activity on the web.

In September, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman posted on X that he "never took the dead internet theory that seriously," but that now he sees "a lot of LLM-run twitter accounts."

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."

"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.

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 that they'd started sharing their thoughts there instead of on Twitter.

Even your group chat isn't safe, though. Some texters have begun using AI to generate and edit their messages, bringing another level of bots to the forum.

Ohanian said these group chats were the golden standard — but they weren't "novel tech."

"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.