Artificial intelligence is quietly changing the internet experience.

After reading Sam Altman's recent remarks, I couldn't help but feel a sense of unease. As the leader of OpenAI, he actually starts to blur the lines between whether the comments online are from real people or AI? Isn't this quite ironic?

Altman shared a strange experience on platform X: when he read comments about the growth of OpenAI's Codex model, he instinctively thought that they were all fake accounts or generated by bots. Even though he knew that Codex was indeed growing strongly and that these trends were real, he still couldn't determine the authenticity of those comments.

"I think there are many factors at play," he explained, "real people have started to mimic the speaking style of large language models, the optimization pressure from social media platforms has begun to reward interaction, and companies are also using 'artificial turf' strategies." The end result is that, "AI-dominated Twitter and Reddit feel very fake, which is completely different from a year or two ago."

What is even more thought-provoking is that just a few days ago, Altman admitted that he had never taken the "death of the internet theory" seriously until now, when he discovered that "there seem to be a lot of Twitter accounts run by large language models." This theory posits that the internet is no longer controlled by real people, but is primarily dominated by robots and AI-generated content.

In this regard, I can't help but ask: who should be responsible for this situation? Isn't it precisely companies like OpenAI that have introduced AI on a large scale into the mainstream that has led to today’s circumstances?

We are now facing a paradox: AI developers themselves are starting to doubt the authenticity of the content they read. When the creators cannot even distinguish what they have created, what hope is there for the average internet user?

Discussions on the internet have become increasingly homogenized and formulaic. Interactions that were once full of personality and genuine emotion are now replaced by a strange, almost perfect language. This reminds me of those heavily edited photos that seem flawless on the surface but have lost all sense of authenticity.

If even Altman starts to question the content he is reading, how should ordinary people seek genuine human connections in this AI-dominated internet? Perhaps the real challenge is not to create better AI, but to protect the uniqueness and authenticity of human communication.