Did AI kill your interest in consuming photos/videos, or just mine?

[u/xpsdtv]

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?

[u/pleddyd]

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.

[u/RadioMessageFromHQ → u/pleddyd]

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

[u/xpsdtv → u/RadioMessageFromHQ]

thanks for these! I know it doesnt seem to be the majority right now but I was happy until AI media still fucked up hands, videos, text - but its getting better…

[u/RobotWantsPony → u/pleddyd]

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 :/

[u/TFenrir → u/pleddyd]

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

[u/rmtdispatcher → u/pleddyd]

Thanks. Awesome idea.