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16034998 No.16034998 [Reply] [Original]

Is there a scenario where the internet could disappear or decline sharply in usage assuming that modern civilization is not completely destroyed?

For example, a massive internet virus could take over the entire internet.

>> No.16035013

Chatbots and AI content generation are going to drive people away from the internet.

>> No.16035016

>>16034998
Maybe if quantum computers are able to break cryptography before resilient quantum cryptography is created. Right now it seems like it's probably not going to be a problem. But there's a fair few nations with smart people and enough money to pursue this kind of research in a secretive manner and they could unleash it as some kind of virus or something in the future maybe, i don't know. It probably wouldn't stop internet usage entirely, it would just make it hard to have any kind of authentication/authorization

>> No.16035035

>>16034998
The only way I could see that happening is that AI gets so advanced that it serves all needs locally but honestly that's fairly absurd. Basically it's never going to happen without significantly less actual internet usage due to some kind of civilizational collapse.

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>>16035016
>Maybe if quantum computers are able to break cryptography before resilient quantum cryptography is created.
LMAO

>> No.16035310

>>16034998
>a massive internet virus could take over the entire internet.
https://youtu.be/F4t7-DEx1-w?si=Z68tOW9B2Br065p5

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>>16035016
>But there's a fair few nations with smart people
no one on /sci/ knows how to physically build the simplest building block of a quantum computer, a logical gate
two quantum states for input, one output

>> No.16035740

>>16035318
>/sci/
>smart people

>> No.16035784

>>16035013
This could do it, if there aren't equivalent advances in automated detection. AI can produce enormous amounts of content that's not quite shitty enough to be trivially classed as spam by a filter. If the internet's drowned in garbage people will stop using it. To some extent this happened to major search engines even with human SEO slop, AI will make it worse.

>> No.16035788

>>16034998
no

>> No.16036045

>>16035318
I can make shitty diodes and triodes, that's about it.

>> No.16036749

>>16035310
Seriously, is it impossible to create a virus so formidable that it could paralyze the entire internet?