/pony/ - Pony

Yeah, as more and more traffic goes to communities owned by a smaller group of people, there's less incentive to show people what they want, and more incentive to sell people on spectacle and slop.

>>1182014
While the older internet wasn't entirely better, per se, so many things were a lot better managed. A ton of things.

A fundamental 'L' in my opinion is how the spoofing of songs, videos, voice clips, photos, and more using AI has brain-destroying effects, if we're honest.

Like almost all advertisements these days present what's literally 'alternate reality propaganda'... including stuff like a truck driving on the road digitally melting in the sun... or like a guy's pants having something so large poking into the fabric that it's literally like he's got a squirrel trapped in there... or things like this:

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>>1182014

Nah. You're not imagining it. The internet is no longer what it was. It used to be an escape - a place where people could be themselves. Now, it's just an extension and sometimes replacement of - the reality that we were escaping from. A lot of people are addicted to it. Many use it to express the worst versions of themselves. I think the internet is about settled now, though - especially now that AI is a thing. The question is where will AI not be able to advance much anytime soon? - that would be in the realms of livestreaming and any kind of real-time, spontaneous social interaction. So, the next big things are probably going to be vtubing (livestreaming), augmented reality, and virtual reality. The written word, images, video - any kind of static medium, such as pre-recorded content - are probably going to be obsolete soon.

https://www.reddit.com/r/oldinternet/

I remember back when Google was good...

>>1182114

rip google. not sure there's much left that the old internet can teach us now, anyways. i used reddit for a couple of years but it didn't take long for them to run out of unique content, too (and with the exodus and all). i guess ai will teach us from now on