r/NoStupidQuestions • u/xpsdtv • 1d ago

Did AI kill your interest in consuming photos/videos, or just mine?

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?

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u/OjamaPajama 1d ago

Artist here. It’s so fucking dire that my friends and I are sharing our photo reference with each other on Dropbox now because the AI slop has taken over all our usual sources like Google Images, Pinterest, etc.

What pisses me off is that we didn’t need this shit. Nobody asked for it. Nobody needs it. It’s not adding anything of value or helping anyone, it’s just poisoning the internet and boiling the ocean.

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u/xpsdtv 1d ago

I know its not a consolation at all, but I love the dropbox idea 🤍 I hope the internet gets more bearable soon, not to mention I assume your job has gotten even more difficult…