More reasons to be thankful for uBlock!
“The filter relies on manually curated open-source blocklists, including the ‘nuclear’ list, provided by uBlockOrigin and uBlacklist Huge AI Blocklist,” DuckDuckGo said in a post on X.
DuckDuckGo now lets you hide AI-generated images in search results
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#22Excellent.
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#23I recently opened Pinterest after a year or so, and did look for some nice architecture / houses, and all results had the tag 'AI enhanced'. No I don't want AI houses, I want to see real architecture! Even though the tags are there, you can't filter on 'No AI'. So I stopped using it again.
> No I don't want AI houses
Currently looking for an actual house on real estate aggregators, and feeling the same way
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#24I have used ddg for many years. But I think the search results were too irrelevant to me most of the time now I have moved on
For me it has been the reverse. I tried DDG many times over the years, but results were always lackluster, especially for local Norwegian results.
But a few years ago Google became so bad, I changed my browser default to DDG, and frankly I can count on two hands the number of times I've needed to go to alternatives since. Especially Norwegian content has gotten good enough in almost all cases.
That said, it's not perfect, there's still stuff it struggles with.
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#25I recently opened Pinterest after a year or so, and did look for some nice architecture / houses, and all results had the tag 'AI enhanced'. No I don't want AI houses, I want to see real architecture! Even though the tags are there, you can't filter on 'No AI'. So I stopped using it again.
I never understood Pinterest and how it works, but I know that people who DO understand and use Pinterest are basically saying that it’s been completely ruined by AI images.
Cara (cara.app) has images - art, photos, etc - that are not AI.
Incidentally, it is a site blessedly free of extra features that add nothing to the use case (sharing things you make).
Re: DuckDuckGo now lets you hide AI-generated images in search results
#26I recently opened Pinterest after a year or so, and did look for some nice architecture / houses, and all results had the tag 'AI enhanced'. No I don't want AI houses, I want to see real architecture! Even though the tags are there, you can't filter on 'No AI'. So I stopped using it again.
I never understood Pinterest and how it works, but I know that people who DO understand and use Pinterest are basically saying that it’s been completely ruined by AI images.
It was mostly ruined by ads/SEO spam many years before. AI is probably the final nail in the coffin for any of the users who appreciated its original appeal, which was basic image curation from mostly blogs.
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#27Well, kind of. Credit for them trying.
I gave it a shot and toggling the button on definitely let some AI slip through. I assume they're doing their level best to heuristically determine whether something is AI, but if there aren't good pedigree indicators it's getting harder and harder to tell.
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#28I don't know how they're going to keep this up long term but I appreciate / like the effort / feature. Even google is getting infected where I search for just an animal name and a bunch of the results are meme like AI images of something that looks "like" that animal.
Likewise, not sure how this will be sustainable. "Even google"... I'd instead say "Especially google". It's already a mess out there, and I hope Google and others take an active role in at least trying to make things usable.
I agree, although I don't know if Google cares. They're happy to provide tools to generate this stuff too ...
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#29While I like the effort, I can imagine the amount of false-positive images that this will flag, but still, better than nothing.
As the technology nears perfection, whether something is "AI" will become a test like whether something is porn: "I know it when I see it."
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#30I recently opened Pinterest after a year or so, and did look for some nice architecture / houses, and all results had the tag 'AI enhanced'. No I don't want AI houses, I want to see real architecture! Even though the tags are there, you can't filter on 'No AI'. So I stopped using it again.
Basically every art related social media hit that state unfortunately.
Aside from making search useless, it just demotivates everyone. No reason to use a social media site that appears full of bots.