Like so many social media platforms, Pinterest has gone way down the plug, and sadly I don’t think it was redeemable.
Way back in the early 2010’s, when there was no AI or shit algorithm, you uploaded what you wanted — no spam, slop or mass editing. That was the way it should be.
Inevitably, with the rise of online protection laws, AI junk effort (both the users and the staff) and mass internet creeps, Pinterest has become a cesspool of utter crap. All the best images gone — either banned for crap reasons, or the former account owners are driven away, or they may still exist out in the aether but the damn ai algorithm makes it impossible to find.
Sadly, as many people here point out, Pinterest is completely (and out of control) so sodden with AI that it’s barely even worth using anymore.
Today, I randomly remembered a bunch of images I’d seen and, feeling nostalgic, I went to look. I typed in some search words related to the pre-AI age images I used to love. Instead, I was met with nothing but AI generated images. Crap, crap, CRAP!!! I couldn’t believe how far it had fallen.
In some way, it almost makes me hope that the dead internet concept will come true, if only to slap open the eyes of these big AI corporations and force them to scale back the damage they are doing, and maybe, just maybe, formerly decent platforms like Pinterest might possibly return to some form of normalcy. For now though, I think I’ll retire from that ‘platform’.
To be clear, it’s not AI images in and of themselves I am complaining of. I have no issue with such things in moderation (like say you upload 10 natural images, complemented with 1 or 2 AI things. That is fine for me). My gripe is with the sheer mass of uploads and the way such things have vastly changed the social media/image sharing platform landscape in the last 5-6 years.
Mini-rant over, thanks for reading (if you did).
Again, I posted 1 image, not multiple ones. I don’t know how you can get that I’m not upset with Pinterest from that. You’re misinterpreting what I’m trying to say if you think I like Pinterest
And as others have already pointed out, you're missing the point. If EVERYONE on lemmy just posted 1 AI image you'd end up with the same shit you have on Pinterest.
And as I said, I, and only I, have posted 1 image, how the hell do you translate that into ‘if everyone else is gonna do the same’? They’re never going to do that, so it’s irrelevant.
Even if by some magic that your scenario of the entire Lemmy community decide to get together and post 1 AI image did come to fruition (absurd suggestion) Lemmy doesn’t run on the same algorithm as Pinterest. It’s 2 different systems. You’re assuming that should people do that, it would have the same effect on two completely different social media platforms that don’t run the same algorithm.
I understand the point you’re making, but your point is nonsense because everyone on Lemmy would never come together and do that. Your point also depends on your comparison between Pinterest and Lemmy, but what you're missing is that you’re overlooking 3 things:
they run on different algorithms. Pinterest has an AI based algorithm that is now trained to purposely churn up more AI content when you view AI content. Lemmy is not an AI algorithm, doesn’t do that, doesn’t prioritise AI content at all, it’s just first-post-first-see (think active, new, etc.) they run on fundamentally different systems.
their interfaces are different. When you click on a pin on Pinterest, it loads up similar (AI for AI clicks) images that you can scroll through endlessly, thereby giving AI content more views. When you click on a Lemmy post, it’s literally just that, no links to other AI content.
But all that aside, the notion of a million Lemmy users each posting 1 AI image is a completely fictitious scenario because…
This is exactly why it's illegal to take even a rock from the Grand Canyon (or other national parks). You're not special. Take the L and move on.
Again, I’m not taking stones from the Grand Canyon (what does that have anything to do with any of this anyway?) I’m talking about posting 1 AI image to Lemmy. Nothing more. Never said I was special, not trying to. Just pointing out that I posted 1 AI image, and that those arguing against me doing so by saying ‘if EVERYONE did that here…’ when they know full well everyone here is not going to do that, your argument is nothing and don’t hinge your argument on a fantasy scenario you know damn well isn’t going to happen. That is all. Thank you for reading.