1 The dead internet theory and generative AI (C2)

When I was teaching English, I used to ask my students how they would feel if they discovered that the content they were consuming had been generated entirely by AI. Their reaction was immediate and overwhelmingly negative. In this episode, I explore that anger, the theory of the dead internet, and the difference between AI used to develop a prompter’s skillset and AI exploited to deceive for personal gain.Join the Linguacade Deep Dive on Patreon to explore themes, content, grammar or vocabulary from every episode. Today’s Deep Dive focuses on the following vocabulary: grifter, bad actor, to foist something on someone, to pass something off as, to be wooed by, to turn out to be.