I was thinking about this while typing. I don’t really care about classically animated content; it’s generally not trying to be indistinguishable from real life and I don’t feel like my brain trains on it.

But I think I do have similar feelings about special effects. A difference is that special effects tend to depict scenarios very outside of the envelope of normal experience, so probably not very damaging if my model of “what does a plane crash look like” is screwed up.

Though some effects probably are damaging - how many people subconsciously assume cars explode when they are in an accident? A poor mental model of the odds of a car exploding could cause you to make poor real-life decisions (like moving someone out of a wrecked car in a panic instead of waiting for EMS, risking spine/neck injury)

When I watch a film, I know it is fiction and special effects. But most of the fake AI-generated videos are being passed off as real on social media. It is exhausting (and increasingly difficult) to analyze every video on my feed to try figure out if its real.

I feel like people do sometimes have a warped sense of reality from consuming too much media, ie porn

Not op but if I’m being honest, I don’t feel as if that’s the case until I see a film whose special effects are limited to mise en scene and matte paintings and then I always have this overwhelming feeling that we’re all missing out.

Films on film using in camera effects are still made on occasion but they’re art films for niche audiences.

But we’ll never get another Ben Hur. And that doesn’t sit well with me even if society can’t yet fully explain why.

I'm not OP, but I do get annoyed by bad car physics on movies.

The worst offenders are brake sounds not correlating to the car movement, engine sounds not correlating to the car's acceleration, nonsensical car deceleration while braking, and steering wheel not correlating to car steering.

Yes, I think consuming too much media, and creating too little is bad for the brain.

Effort makes a great deal of difference for me. The effort itself, the fact that it's there.

I am willing to suspend disbelief for Terminator 1, even if it is clear, that it's a head of the doll in shot.

But it is insulting to feed slop to your audience; it shows you didn't even try.

I have actually seen one slop-video, that I kinda enjoyed - it was obvious, that a great effort was put in a script and details as much as it was obvious it isn't being passed for the real thing.

special effects make most people think that they could jump farther or from higher ground that they actually can. and most people think that all cars explode in massive fireballs.

Are there energy consumption differences between CGI and AI?