To be fair I think that's a very human thing, if you ask a large language model to read something and it can demonstrate applied Knowledge from the text you've submitted in a fraction of a second you'll be like what the fuck that took not enough time.
Something I consider extremely upsetting is the fact that just nobody gives a single solitary fuck in america? Like it's literally genital mutilation on a baby? But people will basically just brush you off if you try to bring up how fucked it is?
I'm not defending this practice because it's remarkably awful but I will note that I have a router that lets me monitor the traffic that individual devices use and most smart devices like this actually use incredibly small amounts of bandwidth. Our smart water tank uses ~10 MB a month which is smaller than most images.
And yes I do think a smart water tank is valid because it can do shit like tell me when it thinks it's about to explode or leak or whatever and it can also like, be remote controlled, and it has a heat pump which is nice.
Hate to admit it but while I hate AI images I got a sensible chuckle out of the Waffle House Dollar General in cop car in one scene because it reminds me of what a garbage country I live in.
I have a 3.5mm jack for my speakers that converts to an RCA jack at the end, I also have T-intersection that goes between an amplifier and the RCA jack to intercept the signal and send it BACK to a set of desktop speakers.
Why? Bootleg surround sound, I know it's just stereo, but hey, more speakers! Also it sounds better, and it can get louder.
Overall, I don't think you're wrong that the internet has become more actively hostile however I will also note that shock content has always been a part of the internet.
There's two girls one cup there's that guy sitting on the jar there's the infamous LiveLeak website, there's meat spin. Like the amount of random Infamous shock content from internet history that I could rattle off is enough to make your stomach turn.
Alligator on a child predator?