TikTok just dropped a new realistic beauty filter

My 2c: it’s the beginning of the end for some tech areas. Especially social networks.

You chat with people online because you think, you know, that people exist on the other side.

You spend time on instagram, tiktok, and so, to get a glimpse of real people (as opposed to TV where a lot is fiction/sfx).

You trust photos because, barring dedicated, time-consuming and skill-intensive editing, they should represent reality.

If that’s not true anymore, and everything is fiction, it’s probably time to get back to IRL experiences.

I fully agree with you. Within the next 5-10 years the internet will be unusable to connect with real people anonymously because everything will be AI generated/enhanced and nobody can be sure whether they talk to a person or a computer.

While many are excited for that I worry about niche communities that hugely depend on the internet's ability to connect with like-minded people far away.