"Altman wrote in a post on X that he had the "strangest experience" looking at the flurry of online forum posts about Codex, OpenAI's new agent tool for developers. "I assume it's all fake/bots, even though in this case, I know codex growth is really strong and the trend here is real," Altman said on X. Representatives for Altman at OpenAI did not respond to requests for comment from Business Insider."
"Altman posited a few reasons for the surge in such content on social media. He said similarities in writing style could be cropping up because "real people have picked up quirks of LLM-speak." Altman added that the "Extremely Online crowd drifts together in very correlated ways." Another reason suggested by Altman was that the nature of the hype cycle around AI tools "has a very 'it's so over/we're so back' extremism.""
""But the net effect is somehow AI twitter/AI reddit feels very fake in a way it really didn't a year or two ago," Altman wrote. Altman made a similar observation in an X post he published last week. "I never took the dead internet theory that seriously but it seems like there are really a lot of LLM-run twitter accounts now," Altman wrote in a post on Wednesday."
People on social media are increasingly using phrasing and quirks that resemble large language models, creating a pervasive, artificial tone. The phenomenon was noticeable around a surge of forum posts about Codex, a developer agent tool. Possible drivers include genuine users adopting LLM-speak, convergence among highly online communities, hype-cycle oscillations, and optimization pressures from social platforms and creator monetization that reward engagement. The combined effects make AI-focused Twitter and Reddit content feel more fake than in prior years. Observers also note growing numbers of accounts that appear run by or mimic LLMs, prompting renewed attention to the "dead internet" idea.
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