not to sound old but I actually hate how social media platforms have shifted from its main core (people sharing harmless glimpses of their lives and connecting with friends and family) to algorithm, likes, engagement, trends, going viral, drama and cancel culture. and also you literally cannot scroll down a few posts without ads. and you have to question every cute photo/video you see because there’s always a chance of it being ai-generated.

(I try not to question things and just let myself enjoy cute animal contents, because if I fully let myself suspect one thing, I’ll suspect every single thing and that’s not how I want to relax and enjoy cute animal contents. so at this point I kind of give up and just enjoy cute animal contents and I make peace with knowing chances are that I’ve already liked and shared animal contents that are ai-generated without knowing it’s ai. and I know this may sound controversial but I refuse to let myself lose my whimsy by not enjoying any cute animal contents for fear of it being ai so whatever. the same goes for witch hunt when it comes to fanfics, I’ll choose to trust that if someone uses ai to write, they’ll tag it accordingly — especially because every ai telltale is something humans actually write and thus ai was able to mimic it — and every fic that’s not tagged as ai is human-made. which I know is not the case, but I also know that, unless the author themself says so, I can never know for sure if a fic is ai and I can only guess based on vibes. and I’ll never ever condone witch hunt, speculation or harassment, the latter of which includes fics that are tagged as ai by the authors. I may not agree with their decisions to let ai write for them, but I’ll mind my own business, I’ll never harass them and I respect that they’re honest about using ai by tagging their works accordingly. but we’ve already strayed farther enough from the original point of this post so.)