Consume stuff to learn things. Does this makes things interesting?

 It makes sense that we are interesting in consuming stuff to learn stuff. So we survived, so we survive more likely. The problem with ai generated content, that we can not learn from it. In the digital age we can not learn much from content produced by others, but there is at least minimal signal there. I can observe how a lake looks like in Sweden when it starts to rain. Useful? No idea. But our brain was wired long before that. But with AI, I know that the information is worthless, no signal. Maybe this is the reason why it feels empty. It is ironic, as there might be a signal, carried through the training. But maybe it is hallucinated. No idea. It feels empty, not interesting. If I see the same shot, one which I know is real and the other is AI, one feels more interesting. Maybe this is a old useless brain talking here.

Btw, I dont care about the effort. If someone took a 4k image, opened paint and copied it pixel by pixel with a 1x paint tool, it takes forever (450 work days / 2 work years with 1.5s per pixel) but I find the result not more interesting.