Comment by ahmeneeroe-v2
11 days ago
You have only had google image search for what, 20-years? Why do you think it is a fundamental part of humanity's growth story?
You talk about being a part of something "real and visceral" but you're complaining about the demise of being able to sit at your desk and see pictures of wildlife. Maybe it's okay that google image search dies and makes people go out and find the wildlife they want to see.
The internet, even in its best format (e.g. ad-free, free access information for all; and communication with all of humanity) has a ton of real downsides. It's not clear to me that AI should be strangled in its infancy to save the internet (which does _not_ exist in that "best" format).
>Maybe it's okay that google image search dies and makes people go out and find the wildlife they want to see.
I don't think that is what will happen if google images dies.
haha, no definitely not! The internet is mostly not "real and visceral" so losing parts of it to AI-generated nonsense IS a loss, just not a loss of the actual underlying thing (in this case: baby peacocks).