Does anyone else feel like AI has lowered the quality of everything?

Hey everyone,

I have a genuine question about the future of AI. It’s been a couple of years since the hype started, and to be honest, as an average guy, I’m just not seeing a massive difference in daily life.

Sure, we can access information faster, and development speed has skyrocketed—what used to take me a month of programming now takes a few days. But outside of that? Nothing has really changed for me. I still visit the exact same websites. If anything, the only noticeable change is that my own ability to deeply learn and understand things feels like it's downgrading .

I remember when Google launched Veo a while back and thinking, "Okay, we're cooked, video creation is over." But fast forward to now, and the internet is just flooded with cheap, low-effort AI content that you can't stand to watch for more than three seconds.

Every single day there’s a headline about a new model that is "X times better" than the last one. The time it takes to create things has dropped to zero, but the actual value of the output feels incredibly close to zero, too.

Am I missing something here, or am I just behind? I’d love to hear your thoughts on whether AI is actually changing things for you, or if it's mostly just noise right now.