The Age of AI is a Crisis of Faith

The fundamental question facing online spaces in 2025 is no longer can AI pass as human? but rather can humans prove they’re not AI?

This represents a profound shift from technical doubt to existential uncertainty. It’s a crisis of faith where the bedrock assumption that we interact with other humans online has collapsed. And I’m not being hyperbolic. In 2024, bot traffic exceeded human traffic for the first time in a decade, hitting 51%. We’ve crossed the threshold. The internet is now majority non-human.

When I personally veer onto the Internet, particularly places like LinkedIn or Substack or any social media’s comment section, Dead Internet Theory truly shines as a valid hypothesis. This once-fringe conspiracy theory which speculates that the Internet is now mostly bots talking to bots is now many people’s lived experience — Read More