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).
