Dead internet theory says most of what you read online is no longer written by people.
Is it true? Let's check.
Ten short comments from online discussions. Some were written by people before 2019, before AI could write. The rest were written by AI this year. Pick which is which.
1 of 10 · 0 right
Your result
- Everyone
- AI passed as human
- People taken for AI
So text can't tell us who's real.
If reading can't separate people from machines, there's one test left that AI can't pass: showing up. We're counting the humans that way, city by city. No name, no face scan.
I'm human. Count me.About this test
Human comments are real posts from a public tech forum, picked at random from 2010–2018. AI comments were written by GPT-5.4, GPT-5.4 mini and Claude Sonnet 4.6, each asked to reply in the same thread in the same casual tone. Both sides use the same punctuation, so quotes and dashes don't give anything away.
We store totals only: how often each comment was guessed right. Nothing about you.