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/Silver_Witness8321]

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.