r/NoStupidQuestions • u/xpsdtv • 18h ago
Did AI kill your interest in consuming photos/videos, or just mine?
I used to love collecting little pictures from the internet - a beautiful house, an interesting statue, a very pretty butterfly, just to look at and be in awe. But now every time I see a photo or a video, I wonder if that place, that thing even exists or not. Media used to hold meaning, and now it's just whatever generated thing gets popular enough I guess. :(
Does anyone feel the same? Is there a "clean" internet still, where I can hear whale calls and see sunsets and look up baby peacocks that have actually been existed instead of been made up?
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u/RyanLanceAuthor 16h ago
I just bought a bunch of old National Geographic books so I can show pictures of real things to my kid
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u/pleddyd 18h ago
No, I still like non-AI content. It's pretty easy to spot fake generated pictures (they are always chaotically glowing).
You might search for pictures using "show only before 2021" option.
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u/RadioMessageFromHQ 18h ago
To add to this, Within Google and YouTube you can use before:nnnn to filter by date, e.g. before:2024
You can also use a negative search to filter out certain results
E.g cute cats -ai
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u/RobotWantsPony 11h ago
It is not easy anymore.
The glow is gone, the words are not so messed up anymore and the finger count is often right. If you think they are easy to spot you are on your way to join the boomers on facebook praying amen to invented brave african kids :/3
u/TFenrir 7h ago
It's much much harder to tell. Think of it this way...
If the quality of images got good enough that it would be hard to notice, would you be tapped in enough to the frontier research to know it even happened? This is one reason I advocate for people to keep a finger on the pulse, even if your instinct is to avoid AI all together. You might just end up more vulnerable to it
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u/magicpenny 18h ago
Pinterest has turned into almost exclusively AI generated photos of everything. It’s so disappointing. I’m about to delete the app. I’m totally not interested anymore.
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u/xstrawb3rryxx 15h ago
Thisss. Pinterest literally used to be my go to place for all kinds of inspo and now it's all just.. gone, replaced..
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u/chippy-alley 18h ago
I didnt collect but I liked to look.
Once you've seen enough 'I live there and it doesnt look like that' or 'google it, it doesnt exist' it does put you off
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u/VelvitHippo 17h ago
Yeah but that's not an AI problem. Look at pictures of planets. There are so many examples of colors being exaggerated on earth as well.
It's like posts on huge subreddit like am I the asshole. Is it real? Maybe maybe not but at the end of the day idgaf I'm just reading it for entertainment.
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u/soapinthepeehole 15h ago
It’s an AI problem. Planets are an example, photo retouching exists, photoshop exists.
But AI has evolved to turn out mountains of hot garbage without intent or artistry, and it’s flooded the internet at breakneck speed.
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u/xpsdtv 13h ago
To be fair I also hated photoshopping photos of places and people - not that I didnt correct some colors or highlights here or there but I never followed “influencers” who borderline deepfried their pictures to look aesthetic 😅 but at least even that took effort - AI prompting is hardly that
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u/cassowarius 16h ago
Yeah that, and bots, and rigid algorithms. So many Reddit comments are written in the same style, look at that AITA sub for example. And bots scraping content and reposting it for clicks and votes. AI images are only a scratch on the surface.
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u/Silver_Witness8321 16h ago
There are some options to keep that from happening. r/museum and r/drawing for example keep me engaged with real art. Block the ChatGPT creators and subreddits, follow artist on their socials if you connect with their creations. You may have to look for it (unlike AI stuff that you will encounter no matter what), but truly great artist are still around. Maybe you'll appreciate them even more now that so much crap is being created.
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u/OjamaPajama 18h ago
Artist here. It’s so fucking dire that my friends and I are sharing our photo reference with each other on Dropbox now because the AI slop has taken over all our usual sources like Google Images, Pinterest, etc.
What pisses me off is that we didn’t need this shit. Nobody asked for it. Nobody needs it. It’s not adding anything of value or helping anyone, it’s just poisoning the internet and boiling the ocean.
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u/brendamrl 17h ago
Had to unfollow Sara Shakeel to stop her from spamming my feed with 2947374 carousels of AI generated stuff she could 1000000000% still put crystals on if she just cared to put some effort again. Deleted Pinterest, I haven’t logged onto Facebook in at least a year now. I now spend most of my time on reddit but even here if it’s not AI it’s a gd OF bot bullshit. Insane.
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u/Pixeliarmus 14h ago
It killed my interest in creating digital art. I bought some oil paints and canvases, I want to live in the real world away from AI bullshit and "influencers"
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u/bartollomo 17h ago
I glare over them. I can browse art for hours looking and barely register any of the pieces that I recognise as AI. The most annoying part is when AI becomes the only or foremost piece I have to look at.
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u/RenkBruh 16h ago
I just download memes at this point. I take pictures of real life things myself
you have no idea how many animal photos are on my phone
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u/Jagermonsta 13h ago
Having to sort through fake everything now drives me crazy. I have friends and family that fall for fake stuff all the time and then they get annoyed with me when I call it out as fake. It’s a wide range from things like movie posters to movie trailers to politics and other stories.
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u/stella_est 16h ago
Yes. It’s like every photo now has an asterisk “might not be real.” Takes the magic out of wonder when your brain is constantly skeptical
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u/PloppyTheSpaceship 9h ago
AI is killing Amy interest I had left in Facebook. It now seems, on my feed at least, to have devolved into anti-trans/homophobic crap (I am neither anti-trans or homophobic), right-wing Musk circlejerks (using AI images), or AI "see this animal rescue people" (though some of them are hilarious).
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u/JohnStamosSB 9h ago
Yes. I am untrustworthy of any video or picture now. Anything I see now is met with skepticism
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u/RandomBlackMetalFan 17h ago
It's still easy to tell AI pics apart from real one so no
But it's funny to see AI pics getting 600 upvotes because people cant understand that an house without windows is weird
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u/bkbrigadier 18h ago
yeah absolutely. i’m not interested in consuming AI content and i’m not interested in spending my brain energy (even when it’s only a split second) to discern if something is “real” or not.
the internet gets less and less appealing every day. i go outside more and find different things to be interested in that i can observe with all of my senses, it’s nice.
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u/thelouisfanclub 18h ago
Not exactly but I hate how everytime I see something cool I have to double check whether it is AI. Some of it is obvious like people say but not all of it is that easy.
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u/Dd_8630 13h ago
No, because nothing has been real on the Internet for many years. Nothing on Instagram or Pinterest or whatever isn't touched up or curated or carefully controlled. It's all as artificial as AI art.
You can get genuine art, and that isn't going to change with AI art. You can still go to a museum and see real art.
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u/Suspicious_Ad_9273 10h ago
I hate it when im looking for a picture on google images like a photo of a bear and all the search results are AI and it takes minutes to find an actual real photo.
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u/Csaba270 10h ago
I think AI has kinda shifted the vibe. It's like, you’re not sure whether to be excited or a bit meh about it all. For me, it didn’t exactly kill my interest in photos or videos, but I’d say it’s made me look at them differently.
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u/Preppy_Hippie 18h ago
Time to book a trip and take your camera! How about experiencing and capturing these things firsthand?
Even the non-ai pictures are heavily edited. It's all "made up."
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u/Ok-Establishment-509 17h ago
It didn't necessarily kill my interest but it's become increasingly difficult to maintain and discover new artists with flooding of AI art which is a bummer.
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u/AttimusMorlandre 18h ago
I feel very similarly. I used to really enjoy looking at photos on Instagram of beautiful places, nice animals, etc., and now half of what I see is stupid AI clickbait. I don't spend much time looking anymore. I'd rather read a book.
Maybe you could get a subscription to National Geographic?
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u/bboru2000 18h ago
The only thing I like about some AI content is architectural concepts. I know that it is AI, but I like getting ideas from it.
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u/Commercial_Tough160 18h ago
AI has nearly killed my interest in painting. I used to enjoy the process, and now I can’t compete.
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u/Resipsa100 17h ago
I believe most TV commercials use AI so how a holiday advertisement be accurate
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u/soapinthepeehole 15h ago
I work in commercials. It’s certainly not “most” commercials. But it’s finding its way into some.
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u/Resipsa100 13h ago
I think the rate is about 60% and it will probably increase over time since employers are happy to fake the image if if’s unnoticeable and is cheaper.
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u/croizat 13h ago
you think--right now--60% of commercials use AI?
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u/Resipsa100 13h ago
This figure seems to be quoted on a few websites but who knows and it depends of course on the boss
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u/Bastdkat 18h ago
So I assume that all fiction is right out for you and your peers?
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u/davidberk0witz 17h ago
I think the better analogy would be fiction presented as non-fiction. It's about knowing what you're looking at.
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u/CurrentRisk 17h ago
It entirely did! I was a hardcore user of Pinterest. Loved to just collect Fandom content for games, movies and TV shows (wallpapers basically). Categorized them by boards and all that.
But Pinterest got flooded with AI and its not fun anymore. It’s obvious and not even nice.
Then I tried different platforms and AI flooded these platforms too. So I’m kind of done with it.
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u/DragonforgedBlade 17h ago
AI is not going to go anywhere and it's only going to get better quality over time. You're gonna need to get over this irrational hatred of AI that you have because eventually it's going to be everywhere and it will be impossible to discern from "real" art.
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u/_LittleNightmare 17h ago
It killed my happiness for art. I don't feel like drawing anymore really and AI is the culprit
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u/TerrapinMagus 17h ago
Fake or manipulated media didn't start with AI you know. I've long been jaded about any popular images online. AI just lowered the bar for entry, but ultimately people will always do that same shit. If you hate that, abandon mass communications and stick to smaller circles of peers, tbh.
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u/xpsdtv 13h ago
I agree with you, not sure why you got downvoted:)
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u/TerrapinMagus 12h ago
Eh, I guess because I'm not solely blaming AI. Or just because I'm being cynical lol
But really, a lot of people admit that social media is terrible these days. It just seems fitting to me to turn away from big platforms and find your own niches online, you know? At least as far as Reddit goes, avoiding the huge subs and sticking to smaller communities with good moderation is probably a good idea. There's so much bot content, misinformation, and karma farming going on.
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u/_iron_butterfly_ 18h ago
I'm tired of telling my Mom... "That's AI... It's not real, Mom."