I have truly noticed a change in how I am engaging with content nowadays, I have become more reluctant on clicking on links to articles or videos that have been made in these last few years, and when I do I started by looking for clues if it has been generated by ai. if the voice is human or generated, if the pictures are of real events or slop. I mistrust everything. and it’s exhausting. earlier slop was easier to detect nowadays it’s becoming impossible.
What really boggles me is when I open a game and the ui buttons are ai. Why? It must have taken you longer to have your engine generate those graphics than it would’ve to just grabbed some royalty free ones. I really don’t understand it. I’ve even seen what are clearly ai generated emojis as buttons.
Things always become worse because there are incentives to make them worse. Probably a series of management decisions that demanded or encourages ai usage and that was the result so far.