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

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Post by Wololooo » Fri, Oct 18, 2024, 4:53 AM UTC

raxxorraxor wrote: post #406

anal_reactor wrote: post #271

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It's not just the mods, it's also the culture of the website that changed.

Agreed. There still are resistant subs, but the main culture moved in a worse direction. That is subjective of course, but it isn't just reddit trying to "clean house" that makes everything a little more sterile and boring. It also become even more intolerant of "wrong" opinions. That has always been the case to a degree, but it got seriously worse.

Some subreddit got purged over the years, some for the best, some for the worse, I couldn't find where in the new UI you could find moderator names.

Aaron is probably turning once again in his grave...

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

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Post by jerjerjer » Mon, Oct 21, 2024, 4:42 PM UTC

pavon wrote: post #176

quasse wrote: post #87

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Kagi is not a panacea unfortunately. I pay for it and daily drive it to support a Google alternative, but I still have real trouble with my results being full of AI garbage (both image and text search). As mentioned, product comparisons are a big one but another worrying area is anything medical related. I was trying to find research about a medicine I'm taking this week and the already SEO infested results of 5 year…

That matches my experience. Kagi doesn't surface much content beyond what Google/Bing do. What it does better out of the box is guessing which content is low-quality and displaying so that it takes up less space, allowing you to see a few more pages worth of search results on the first page. And then it lets you permanently filter out sites you consider to be low quality so you don't see them at all. That would have…

Honestly, yikes. And it's not going to be better. Producing AI content is so cheap (and apparently so effective) SEOs are going to milk it forever.

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

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Post by jerjerjer » Mon, Oct 21, 2024, 4:43 PM UTC

frereubu wrote: post #105

quasse wrote: post #87

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Kagi is not a panacea unfortunately. I pay for it and daily drive it to support a Google alternative, but I still have real trouble with my results being full of AI garbage (both image and text search). As mentioned, product comparisons are a big one but another worrying area is anything medical related. I was trying to find research about a medicine I'm taking this week and the already SEO infested results of 5 year…

The UK NHS website is usually pretty good for this so sticking "NHS" in the search terms might help, although I imagine they may not cover non-UK brand names.

"site:" namespace still works on Google... for now.