People Share The Things That Have Been Ruined By AI

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Recently, Reddit user StrawHat_Froggy asked, "What is something that has been ruined by AI and will never recover?"
People had A LOT to say in the comments. Here are some of the best and most interesting replies:
"There are more and more sewing patterns out there with fake instructions and an AI-generated picture of the finished garment. If you know what to look out for, they're not hard to spot (at least currently), but many people don't know this scam exists and just buy some AI pattern off Etsy."
—Frillybits
"Freelance writing. Two years ago, I was making a good $500 a month writing articles. Then some writing app was introduced, and the number of jobs I could choose from dropped from about 80-100 per day to nothing in three weeks."
"My colleagues' ability to write and send an email by themselves."
—CloakAndKeyGames
"Several of my friends' ability to have conversations in dating apps."
"Search engine results."
—Ruminations0"I recently learned that you can put '-ai' after your search and it won't give an AI summary."—AstonishedSockPuppet
"Trust. There used to be a saying, 'I'll believe it when I see it.' Now we can see it and still not believe it."
"Duolingo."
—EthanTheJudge
"Video proof of an event."
"People. So many people use AI to generate things like assignments, documents, etc., to totally avoid learning content. Then they don't even read it or realize that AI essentially created a digital turd."
—CreepyValuable
"Photographic evidence. We can no longer trust any image to be real."
"The em dash. I used to use them in my copywriting, but now it's a big flag for AI written content because ChatGPT is em dash happy. I'll never forgive AI for that."
"Dropping this article for anyone interested in more context about the em dash drama."—inkyblackops
"The AITA (Am I The A-Hole) subreddit and other forums on Reddit. Posting a quick AI story makes it easy for bot accounts to get enough karma to fully access Reddit communities."
"Democracy. Propaganda can be made so realistic that it will be almost impossible to tell what's true and what's fiction. All sides will be able to point to their own evidence and 'truth.'"
—DrTenochtitlan
"Porn deepfakes seem like a genie that's not going back into the bottle."
"Texting and instant messaging. I was texting my aunt about my disapproval of a certain politician. Halfway into the conversation, her responses switched from short two sentence statements (in broken English) to paragraphs with bullet points, capitalization, and punctuation/vocabulary I know she doesn't use. I asked if it was AI. She responded that it was her own analysis. People are losing the ability to communicate their own thoughts."
—Gobnobbla
"Voice acting."
"Computer science grad here. AI has taken away most of my job prospects. Companies make more money by shipping worse software faster with AI. I no longer see a future where my better ability is worth my slower speed in the eyes of hiring managers."
And finally, it's an AI ouroboros: "Oddly enough, AI. As more AI-generated content is online, it's included in learning data for subsequent models, and the AI hallucination problem gets worse. In other words, it gets high on its own supply."
—whereamilivingtoday
H/T r/AskReddit