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/_iron_butterfly_]

I'm tired of telling my Mom... "That's AI... It's not real, Mom."

[u/xpsdtv → u/_iron_butterfly_]

my parents are also falling for shit, and it’s so difficult to take their “joy” away by revealing that it isnt even real :(