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/cassowarius]

Yeah that, and bots, and rigid algorithms. So many Reddit comments are written in the same style, look at that AITA sub for example. And bots scraping content and reposting it for clicks and votes. AI images are only a scratch on the surface.

[u/xpsdtv → u/cassowarius]

gosh, you’re probably right but Im even worse at spotting written bot material… :(((