Is computational creativity flourishing on the dead internet?
This addresses the problem of understanding bot-driven content creation for researchers in computational creativity and social media analysis, but it appears incremental as it applies existing methods to a new context.
This paper investigates whether computational creativity is thriving due to the proliferation of bots on social media, analyzing their behavior to explore this phenomenon, but it does not provide concrete numerical results.
The dead internet theory is a conspiracy theory that states that all interactions and posts on social media are no longer being made by real people, but rather by autonomous bots. While the theory is obviously not true, an increasing amount of posts on social media have been made by bots optimised to gain followers and drive engagement on social media platforms. This paper looks at the recent phenomenon of these bots, analysing their behaviour through the lens of computational creativity to investigate the question: is computational creativity flourishing on the dead internet?