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Nearly all of the Google images results for "baby peacock" are AI generated
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Re: Nearly all of the Google images results for "baby peacock" are AI generated
#22Re: Nearly all of the Google images results for "baby peacock" are AI generated
#23I stopped using Google search...why even bother now. Results are just some crappy page with ads. Aastroturfed wikpedia page is also suspect. Chatgpt can answer questions in seconds. Just not sure if correct, but most of the time more than good enough. I feel like Google is destroying their credibility by day. Just go to zoo to see peacocks and take pictures. At least it will be an real experience not some virtual man…
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Re: Nearly all of the Google images results for "baby peacock" are AI generated
#24If, like me, you don't have a Twitter account and want to see more than just the single post: https://xcancel.com/notengoprisa/status/1842550658102079556
And if you want to automatically get redirected to xcancel: https://einaregilsson.com/redirector/
Re: Nearly all of the Google images results for "baby peacock" are AI generated
#25Google is going to have to solve for this somehow if they want to remain relevant, right? If searching for an image and generating the image yield the same result, what's the point of image search any more?
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#26Someone needs to invent a “for humans, by humans” web. Possibly a future luxury.
It's so hard to do this because the better you make it, the more valuable it is for someone to a) scrape it all b) try to insert fake content
Re: Nearly all of the Google images results for "baby peacock" are AI generated
#27One of the replies mentions this uBlock Origin AI blocklist (haven't tried it myself): https://github.com/laylavish/uBlockOrigin-HUGE-AI-Blocklist
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#28Google is going to have to solve for this somehow if they want to remain relevant, right? If searching for an image and generating the image yield the same result, what's the point of image search any more?
Watermarking I think is supposed to be the goal, but I don’t think anyone can think that the web is in anything but managed decline. The AI feeding itself AI will just end it all. I think Platformer describes it best: https://www.platformer.news/google-io-ai-search-sundar-picha...
The question is what comes next, and I don’t think anyone has an answer to that.
Re: Nearly all of the Google images results for "baby peacock" are AI generated
#29Someone needs to invent a “for humans, by humans” web. Possibly a future luxury.
A new sales point for Web3.
Re: Nearly all of the Google images results for "baby peacock" are AI generated
#30Well, on the "bright" side, all but 2 of the striked ones are either explicitly AI generated art (the 3 Adobe Stock ones, 2 from freepik, and the 1 from Instagram) or about noting the images aren't real (the 2 Snopes and the 1 in the bottom left calling out the feet).
On the sad side the TikTok and YouTube ones that likely led to all of this aren't labeled and are present, not to mention the complete lack of "I want the AI things automatically filtered, I'm not interested in trends I'm searching for actual things right now" button. Without something like that it will become harder to use Google to find new content.
I mean people obviously like the content, it's cute enough to get shared around so much to make itself popular in these images and to trigger the post on X about it. Nothing wrong with that... but if it's not easily filterable for what the user is actually trying to find then Google has somewhat failed at its goal.