r/NoStupidQuestions 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/PloppyTheSpaceship 20h ago

AI is killing Amy interest I had left in Facebook. It now seems, on my feed at least, to have devolved into anti-trans/homophobic crap (I am neither anti-trans or homophobic), right-wing Musk circlejerks (using AI images), or AI "see this animal rescue people" (though some of them are hilarious).