I never understood Pinterest and how it works, but I know that people who DO understand and use Pinterest are basically saying that it’s been completely ruined by AI images.

It was mostly ruined by ads/SEO spam many years before. AI is probably the final nail in the coffin for any of the users who appreciated its original appeal, which was basic image curation from mostly blogs.

Wait, are you telling me that before LLMs, this was the good version of Pinterest?

This is the most common blocked site on ublacklist lists and kagi and probably it is also on many of the common dns blocklist.

I don’t really get the Pinterest hate, but from what I understand it’s because their walled garden content came up in web search results. Anyway I’ve been using their app for over a decade. It’s the best place on the internet to explore visual art. The content is manually curated by users and the feed/recommendation algorithms are super good. It’s got very few and inoffensive ads too. The only issue with it is now the occasional AI content.

It seems most sites that allow user generated content, and allow images/video, have been ruined by AI.

Before long we’ll need a second internet just for real people, as this internet will just be all bots and AI content. Dead internet indeed.

Or better yet, maybe I can get some real hobbies outside of tech.

I still have no desire to use it, but reading the complaints and explanations of AI wrecking Pinterest has finally given me some understanding of what people do there and why they bother.

Cara (cara.app) has images - art, photos, etc - that are not AI.

Incidentally, it is a site blessedly free of extra features that add nothing to the use case (sharing things you make).

Basically every art related social media hit that state unfortunately.

Aside from making search useless, it just demotivates everyone. No reason to use a social media site that appears full of bots.

Searching for recipes is definitely an exercise in ai suck.

Recipes are a sore spot for me. holy smokes is it a seo spam wasteland, I mean as far as our modern search engines go the whole web(statistically) is seo spam wasteland. but recipe sites are a specific particularly bad biome in that wasteland. they all follow the same infernal formula, about 5 paragraphs on how the recipe makes you feel, then the over specific formulation.

I know there are good recipe sites out there, you just will never find them, unless our search engine overlords slip and let one through.

The good web still exists, it is just that the search engines(our gateway to the web) are unable to find it under all the trash. My only solution so far has to been to start manually curating a list of good sites. A big part of the problem as I understand it is the search engines heavily prioritize new content over good content. To the point if I see a date in the current year next to the search result, I instantly reject it as seo garbage. If I were a better person I would sign up for Kagi, as I firmly believe a large part of the solution is to fix the business/customer dynamics, that is, you want to be the customer, not the product. But I am reluctant to sign up for another service so I am stuck shoveling slop to get through the web.

I think even in this case, I might want to see CAD renderings, which I can't help but think might get swept closer to AI generated than "rendered".

> No I don't want AI houses

Currently looking for an actual house on real estate aggregators, and feeling the same way

I’ve noticed Etsy has a lot of AI art showing up (prints, mugs, etc).