The dead internet theory is not really claiming that most of your personal interactions on the internet are fake.

It is, however, an interesting lens through which to view the internet. That it is no longer for humans, by humans – this is the sense in which the internet we knew and loved is “dead”.

In her review of the show, London-based writer and editor Isabelle Bucklow reflects on how language – like imagery – is no longer simply a vessel for human feeling. In the age of Large Language Models and ChatGPT, language has become increasingly slippery: saturated with noise, drained by repetition and harder than ever to hold onto. It’s being loo... See more