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Re: Nearly all of the Google images results for "baby peacock" are AI generated

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Oct 07, 2024, 5:48 PM UTC

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Re: Nearly all of the Google images results for "baby peacock" are AI generated

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Post by petesergeant » Mon, Oct 07, 2024, 5:49 PM UTC

kevin_thibedeau wrote: post #53

Almost all of the "product X vs Y" results are AI ramblings now. This growth of the dead Internet is making me want to sign up for Kagi. We're going to need a certification for human generated content at some point.

> We're going to need a certification for human generated content at some point

I wrote some ideas up about this many years ago: https://github.com/pjlsergeant/multimedia-trust-and-certific...

Re: Nearly all of the Google images results for "baby peacock" are AI generated

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Post by sobellian » Mon, Oct 07, 2024, 5:49 PM UTC

jsheard wrote: post #61

kevin_thibedeau wrote: post #53

Almost all of the "product X vs Y" results are AI ramblings now. This growth of the dead Internet is making me want to sign up for Kagi. We're going to need a certification for human generated content at some point.

Even Google is trying to get into the X vs Y game, with pretty funny results if you ask for a nonsensical comparison. https://x.com/samhenrigold/status/1843040235325964549 ...or a sensical comparison where it just completely misses the point. https://i.imgur.com/FotFZ3F.jpeg

Couldn't reproduce - in fact, the second hit is a threads version of the same post - but I get no AI suggestions for this query. Humorous Google queries (or AI queries more generally) are definitely a trope, so I can never really tell if they actually happened or if it's all for karma.

Re: Nearly all of the Google images results for "baby peacock" are AI generated

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Post by dudus » Mon, Oct 07, 2024, 5:49 PM UTC

[deleted] wrote: post #91

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AI is not a "species" in any sense of the word.

Re: Nearly all of the Google images results for "baby peacock" are AI generated

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Post by whalesalad » Mon, Oct 07, 2024, 5:49 PM UTC

Drives me nuts. The internet is dead.

I just bought a home and I have been googling the best way to tackle certain home improvement projects - like how to prepare trim for painting. Virtually every result is some kind of content farm of AI-generated bullshit with advertising between every paragraph, an autoplay video (completely unrelated) that scrolls with the page, a modal popup asking me to accept cookies, a second rapid-fire modal popup asking me to join the newsletter to "become a friend"

For better or worse, Reddit is really the only place to go find legitimate information anymore.

Re: Nearly all of the Google images results for "baby peacock" are AI generated

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Post by itsafarqueue » Mon, Oct 07, 2024, 5:50 PM UTC

speedgoose wrote: post #68

nelup20 wrote: post #27

One of the replies mentions this uBlock Origin AI blocklist (haven't tried it myself): https://github.com/laylavish/uBlockOrigin-HUGE-AI-Blocklist

I think we should have an allow list approach at this point. Maybe a web directory of trustful websites.

Yeeha!

Re: Nearly all of the Google images results for "baby peacock" are AI generated

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Post by bongodongobob » Mon, Oct 07, 2024, 5:50 PM UTC

duxup wrote: post #56

bongodongobob wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

... Did you want a picture of a real cat professor?

I was hoping for a picture of a real cat. There's a different look that real photos have. The AI photos all look like computer polished weirdness.

So generate your own.

Re: Nearly all of the Google images results for "baby peacock" are AI generated

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Post by QuantumGood » Mon, Oct 07, 2024, 5:50 PM UTC

kevin_thibedeau wrote: post #53

Almost all of the "product X vs Y" results are AI ramblings now. This growth of the dead Internet is making me want to sign up for Kagi. We're going to need a certification for human generated content at some point.

Any source of content can be controlled or manipulated in non-obvious ways. And we already have strong algorithms for manipulating human attention (resulting in the growth of non-falsifiable conspiracy theories, for one). There is no clear approach leading out of information dystopia.

Re: Nearly all of the Google images results for "baby peacock" are AI generated

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Post by plinnie » Mon, Oct 07, 2024, 5:51 PM UTC

It sounds a bit unfair to use content from a site without crediting the source in an obvious way. I'm sure this shameless content hijacking can't continue as in the end there will not be any source to query. Robots.txt should allow meta-tags like block 'all AI' bots (or these AI companies should pay their sources).

Re: Nearly all of the Google images results for "baby peacock" are AI generated

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Post by Analemma_ » Mon, Oct 07, 2024, 5:52 PM UTC

kevin_thibedeau wrote: post #53

Almost all of the "product X vs Y" results are AI ramblings now. This growth of the dead Internet is making me want to sign up for Kagi. We're going to need a certification for human generated content at some point.

> We're going to need a certification for human generated content at some point.

People keep saying this and I keep warning them to be careful what they wish for. The most likely outcome is that "certification of human generated content" arrives in the form of remote attestation where you can't get on the internet unless you're on a device with a cryptographically sealed boot chain that prevents any untrusted code from running and also has your camera on to make sure you're a human. It won't be required by law, but no real websites will let you sign in without it, and any sites that don't use it will be overrun with junk.

I hate this future but it's looking increasingly inevitable.