dead internet theory already began before AI existed, a post about statistics in AI responses - they reveal that it's enough to have a claim / headline in the internet without a study behind to get a cited source afterwards.

https://trakkr.ai/trakkr-research/zombie-stats +

updated my blog to try to not overwhelm my statistics with the bot traffic which happily crawls every subpage of "statistics" which is one for each day a year has ;)

beside that there's now an llm.txt - as the blog supports markdown from the get go.