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World Congress 2026 Europe • Jul 9, 2026 • Session details

The Internet is Dead, Long Live the Internet: Building Community in the Time of Bots

Colleen Lake

Are developers abandoning your public forums for private AI chatbots? Learn how to survive the "dead internet" by debugging LLM hallucinations and cultivating unpolished, authentic community spaces.

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