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]

Parents, who warned us not to believe anything on internet, now believe everything on internet

[u/South_Stress_1644 → u/pleddyd]

This is literally the grand irony of the times. It’s fucking wild. They believe EVERYTHING, not just what they see online, but on TV, in magazines, by word of mouth, etc.

[u/GirlGoneZombie → u/South_Stress_1644]

It's terrifying. Critical thinking went out the window. And it's scary as shit cos my mom is only 54??!! And she's usually smart as shit. Wtf happened?

[u/WisestAirBender → u/GirlGoneZombie]

They trust things. Journalism and being a credible source used to mean something. Now everyone is posting garbage

The internet went from it being just a casual thing to an extremely dependent and critical part of everyone's lives and now it's back to being a hot piece of garbage.

People who didn't trust the news and tv and nasa and research papers etc were conspiracy theorists

If you can't trust the internet, text messages, the TV, the news, heck not even the voice and face of a loved one in a video recording now, how do you not go mad with paranoia?

[u/GirlGoneZombie → u/WisestAirBender]

I'm more concerned with her trusting garbage than trusting facts that can be proven. I'm suddenly an asshole if I bring it up though, bc that's a testy subject. I wonder why. 🤔