I miss the times when AI Slop was not a thing. When I saw art online and 100% knew that at some point, somewhere, someone must've done this themselves with a skill set that they likely refined for years or decades and it took hours of dedication to make and finish it. When I didn't have to zoom in to look for weird structures or inconsistencies.
When even such inconsistencies or e.g. weird hands were there, it was probably an artistic choice. Some other post on tumblr also mentioned they are tired of having to second-guess themselves if they just interacted with AI or not.
When I went on reddit and there was a a large text written somewhere and I KNEW someone put every word there themselves. Like yes, Copypastas existed and everything, but still, someone wrote them initially. Themselves.
Yes, you could argue that AI is just a refined form of Copypasta since all it does is copying something, but you know. It's not the same thing.
Even when it was fake, a fake video or Photoshop or whatever, but even then there were real people, real scenes, it was hard to fake those. Too hard. And if even high budget movies tried, you could see it. Even when it was a ragebait post with a fake story, then some human whipped that story up themselves and wrote them and lied. Some little goblin had a lie they made up and typed them through their stupid little keyboard.
Now, I can never be sure how much is truly human behind what I read or from the art I see. I'm not an artist myself and I hate how I could also be susceptible to AI content and not know it.
