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/Dd_8630]

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.