According to a conspiracy theory called the dead Internet theory, we only encounter bots on the Internet. In fact, the situation is probably even grimmer: today’s Internet is teeming with content farms, AI-generated nonsense displayed in Google searches, deepfakes, scams, and bots making mass birthday wishes to real people to generate artificial traffic. As a result, we function with a sense of blurring the line between the living and the dead, the real and the generated.