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In 2021 — more than one year before the release of ChatGPT — a user on the online forum AgoraRoad called IlluminatiPirate described the “dead internet theory,” which claimed that since 2016, the majority of online activity has been driven by bots operated by shadowy actors with a desire to shape public opinion…