Comment by matthewdgreen

Head over to Instagram and pick a random reel. Now scroll down and let the algorithm pick out suggestions for you. (Not your main timeline, mind you -- this gets you actual algorithmic suggestions.) The first few will be normal, but it gets incredibly disturbing very quickly. I did this last night and it was about 90% AI videos. They included:

1. Beautiful cakes and muffins that squirmed and then turned into puppies. (This sounds cute but is actually kind of disturbing.)

2. Rats. Big ass rats. And some cockroaches. A sandwich full of bugs.

3. Pretty women having their heads sliced up with sharp knives, which then demonstrated that they were actually made of "cake".

4. Monsters in what appear to be backyard surveillance cameras.

This was interspersed with random content that I actually look at, plus a few thirst traps. The closest description I have for it was "this is what a bad trip is like." The Internet in 2025 is nothing like MSN.