Bots Bots Bots, AI Slop, and the Death of the Internet

Frames a whiteboard on why the internet is dying and how blockchain can be the solution to that macro problem.

Shows a bot account, Cardano Mini, that attacks every post, one of thousands making X almost unusable.

Cites 2025 research that 45 to 64 percent of X's 660 million accounts are bots, roughly 300 to 420 million automated.

Cites the Kijisat video that AI slop is destroying the internet, with AI generated Warhammer 40k lore videos pumped out daily.

As AI advances the bot share approaches 100 percent, and the majority of internet users today are already bots.

Gen AI creates slop, with a better than 50 percent chance any image, video, or comment you see was AI generated.

By 2030 the odds the person you talk to is really Bob and not Robo Bob approach zero, so the internet is effectively dead.

Introduces decentralized identifiers, DIDs, that assign a person an ID and prove attributes like age and, crucially, humanity.

Surveys proof of humanity work, from Kleros to a 2016 paper he wrote at Virginia Commonwealth, and Quantum Hosky's Arctop brain fingerprint.

Content can carry an NFT signed with a verified proof of human origin, creating a marketplace for non slop human made content.

Predicts by 2030 an internet by and for AI plus an invitation only second internet, human land, the only place humans are allowed.

Advertising, a multi trillion dollar industry, breaks when traffic is bots that ignore ads, disrupted by agent protocols like MCP and X402.

Humans stop using browsers and tell an agent interface like Perplexity's Comet what they want, and swarms of agents go into slop land to do it.

Social networks fail when Alice talks to Robo Bob, so blockchain becomes the ledger for humanity where DIDs live and proofs are checked.

Agents need RAG or fine tuning to know you, raising a marketplace for agents that know you and subject matter expert agents.

The agent marketplace could live on an AI ledger, as the Near community and Patrick Tobler propose, with Midnight protecting your RAG data.

The internet cleaves into two blockchains: one for agentic commerce and one social web with a humanity blockchain of NFTs and DIDs.

Applications for truth: prediction markets that value getting things right, from Super Bowls to elections to Jimmy Hoffa.

Proposes veracity bonds where being wrong costs money, so a Cointelegraph forced to put a million dollar bond behind stories would go broke.

An epistemic funnel of automated, economic, and vouching based checks replacing seeing it with your own eyes.

Specialized learning agents replace prepackaged education, letting you buy and adapt agents for deliberate practice and skill acquisition.

The next Google is an agentic commerce company that figures out how Alice buys her blue dress at scale, disrupting AdSense.

Meta, YouTube, and Google must adapt, since a concert pianist AI video has no human skill and bot filled comment sections are worthless.

Agents will pay per article tolls instead of subscriptions, negotiating via X402 and A2A protocols to check out content.

The core thing people search for is objective reality, and blockchains create a shared synthetic consensus reality.

Illustrates consensus reality with history: no one alive knew Ulysses S Grant, so history builds a synthetic Grant from biased records.

History reduces figures like George Washington and the Sally Fairfax question to an evolving consensus, the best objective reality social systems get.

The internet reflects humanity turned into bots and slop for economic reasons, and reclaiming humanity via NFTs and DIDs is worth trillions.

IO's next build after Midnight, RealFi, and Quantum Hosky is a decentralized social network with epistemic hygiene tools.

His own desire to use the internet is falling as content gets less relevant and 30 minute videos get reduced to one attacked sentence.

Lace is the perfect on and off ramp for a human verified network, with perfect forward secrecy and a mobile app coming.

Verifiable humans with privacy let long tail communities, like anonymous crocheters, talk and run micro markets without being doxed.

People panicking over the liquidation event to ask why they are here, since if all you care about is token price you are useless.

The lie that wealth equals happiness makes you a slave in a bigger room, and the industry exists to liberate economic and social systems.

Asks why the mass liquidation happened, proposing a truth marketplace and collective insurance to fund a campaign to jail market manipulators.

Rebuts the Paul Baron Network clip about DJED, noting the story is the recovery: it holds plus or minus 3 percent for two years and self corrects after black swans.

Human identities bring reputations, so lying and manipulation lower your social credit, and free speech is not freedom from consequences.

Proposes sharing content as verified with your reputation attached or as unverified, so a network can weigh credibility.

Calls it the Alex Jones effect, where Infowars would need a veracity bond after the Sandy Hook crisis actor lies.

Next generation social networks give tools for the epistemic funnel, agent versus human detection, and anonymous aliases like Satoshi.

The next 10 years bring synthetic biology from his labs, scaled quantum computers from IBM and Google, and MatterGen programming reality.

Predicts AGI and ASI by 2027 to 2032, plus nanotech micro robots integrated into bodies for therapy then augmentation.

AGI, ASI, and nanotech powers, feared because the public distrusts people after COVID, arrive anyway driven by greed, so blockchain must anchor human rights.

Shares that he has gout and could cure it with a plasmid making uricase, via a company called Miniircle he has talked to about a clinical trial.

Elective gene therapies are the new frontier, and blockchain is the foundational technology to regulate reality so no one is left behind.