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. š
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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No, I still like non-AI content. It’s pretty easy to spot fake generated pictures (they are always chaotically glowing).
You might search for pictures using “show only before 2021” option.
I didnt collect but I liked to look.
Once you’ve seen enough ‘I live there and it doesnt look like that’ or ‘google it, it doesnt exist’ it does put you off
I’m tired of telling my Mom… “That’s AI… It’s not real, Mom.”
No.
So I assume that all fiction is right out for you and your peers?
I feel very similarly. I used to really enjoy looking at photos on Instagram of beautiful places, nice animals, etc., and now half of what I see is stupid AI clickbait. I don’t spend much time looking anymore. I’d rather read a book.
Maybe you could get a subscription to National Geographic?
Not exactly but I hate how everytime I see something cool I have to double check whether it is AI. Some of it is obvious like people say but not all of it is that easy.
The only thing I like about some AI content is architectural concepts. I know that it is AI, but I like getting ideas from it.
Pinterest has turned into almost exclusively AI generated photos of everything. Itās so disappointing. Iām about to delete the app. Iām totally not interested anymore.
Time to book a trip and take your camera! How about experiencing and capturing these things firsthand?
Even the non-ai pictures are heavily edited. It’s all “made up.”
yeah absolutely. iām not interested in consuming AI content and iām not interested in spending my brain energy (even when itās only a split second) to discern if something is ārealā or not.
the internet gets less and less appealing every day. i go outside more and find different things to be interested in that i can observe with all of my senses, itās nice.
Artist here. Itās 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 didnāt need this shit. Nobody asked for it. Nobody needs it. Itās not adding anything of value or helping anyone, itās just poisoning the internet and boiling the ocean.
AI has nearly killed my interest in painting. I used to enjoy the process, and now I canāt compete.
It’s still easy to tell AI pics apart from real one so no
But it’s funny to see AI pics getting 600 upvotes because people cant understand that an house without windows is weird
It entirely did! I was a hardcore user of Pinterest. Loved to just collect Fandom content for games, movies and TV shows (wallpapers basically). Categorized them by boards and all that.Ā
But Pinterest got flooded with AI and its not fun anymore. Itās obvious and not even nice.Ā
Then I tried different platforms and AI flooded these platforms too. So Iām kind of done with it.Ā
It killed my happiness for art. I don’t feel like drawing anymore really and AI is the culprit
I believe most TV commercials use AI so how a holiday advertisement be accurate