The AI generated images are so prevalent that I resorted to reposting images only if there were from 2022 or earlier (sure, filters existed then too).
The whole experience reminds me of the story about "pre-radiation steel" [0] and how future generations won't be able to trust any image after 2024. Then again, we have large amounts of literature and stories from ancient history or medieval times that are impossible to verify as true so maybe this isn't a new problem.
Didn't know about that operator before all this.
This company exemplifies the "dead internet". No way they grow, let alone hit their targets.
Going short.
Thank you, Kagi.
That they ever thought anyone would enjoy the experience is beyond me, and it demonstrates their place in the grotty suburbs of the attention economy.
1. Ads, ads and more ads. I had their app and it had to go, because every third pin was an ad.
2. Ads that seem to be pins: there are ads that are a mini collage. One image, 2-3 thumbs below. All "images" with the same rounded border like the regular pins. So you click them and because the upper image is visually detached from the rest of the ad, you don’t realize that you just clicked an ad when it is too late. A very nasty dark pattern.
3. No timestamps. It’s sometimes hard to tell if something is AI-generated. I don’t want AI-generated when it comes to art. Pinterest could choose to display pin timestamps when they were pinned for the first time, but they don’t.
So, they dug their own hole and I have zero sympathy for them, too.
Since then, I've moved to simply having a local image/video database UI app like Eagle[0] and checking Are.na[1] for interesting collections.
https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/wow/t/pinterest-suspended-...
Something is very broken over at Pinterest.
You can create your private archive with Bookmarker. Share collections publicly if you want.
[1] https://www.sec.gov/ix?doc=/Archives/edgar/data/1506293/0001...
Wonder if we're going to get a MAHU (Monthly Active Human Users) stat in the future.
Pretty much the same with all AI slop sites (e.g. the first 10 search results) only usually they only care about serving adds instead of serving malware or scams.
it seems in history trajectories always continue although they take new forms
like maybe AI users will be renamed to something more palatable, agentic consumers.
not sure where the people will be. probably not somewhere good.