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DuckDuckGo now lets you hide AI-generated images in search results

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Re: DuckDuckGo now lets you hide AI-generated images in search results

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Post by Spivak »

SteveVeilStream wrote: post #49

A risk is that it will give people a false sense of confidence that they are viewing real content. The only way out of this mess is cryptographic methodss (based on hardware in cameras) that can allow end-users to verify photos as real and then we assume every other photo may be AI.

Take a photo of an ai image, profit! Would the signature even survive the editing process of any photographer?

It would be an endless source of memes to try and make the most obviously fake image have the "verified real" badge.

Re: DuckDuckGo now lets you hide AI-generated images in search results

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Post by Taek »

SteveVeilStream wrote: post #49

A risk is that it will give people a false sense of confidence that they are viewing real content. The only way out of this mess is cryptographic methodss (based on hardware in cameras) that can allow end-users to verify photos as real and then we assume every other photo may be AI.

Cryptographic components in cameras have roots of trust that can be compromised as well. Also, photos can be staged (many famous examples of this).

The only real solution is to build social infrastructure that helps people identify the trustworthiness of a source. Some efforts are being made in both the centralized and decentralized directions.

Re: DuckDuckGo now lets you hide AI-generated images in search results

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Post by Nullabillity »

add-sub-mul-div wrote: post #8

Helpful, but even more so would be a way to filter out AI content farms. It's getting to the point where I won't go to a site if I don't recognize its domain from the pre-GPT-3 era. Maybe domain age should be the filter. Not perfect, but no solution will be.

Not just that, the text results rewrite results to be AI slop: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39808531

Re: DuckDuckGo now lets you hide AI-generated images in search results

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Post by [deleted] »

shadowgovt wrote: post #29
lr0 wrote: post #14

While 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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Re: DuckDuckGo now lets you hide AI-generated images in search results

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Post by JohnFen »

lr0 wrote: post #10
a_c wrote: post #7

I 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

Google has personalized search enabled by default for users, which makes it feel more "relevant", of course you get this by sacrifacing any means of privacy. For me, I don't mint unpersonalized results, however, my reason for stopping using ddg is a bit unorthodox one; the overall search performance (as in the time you need to wait until the results load) was significantly higher than Google's. I still believe that K…

> Google has personalized search enabled by default for users, which makes it feel more "relevant"

I am pretty convinced that one of the big reasons why Google search results have become borderline worthless to me is directly because it tries to "personalize" the results.

Re: DuckDuckGo now lets you hide AI-generated images in search results

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Post by AntiqueFig »

xnx wrote: post #21

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.

I'm not sure the list has been provided by uBlock, looking at their repo[0] I understand that the list is available for uBlockOrigin and uBlacklist, but not made by them.

[0] https://github.com/laylavish/uBlockOrigin-HUGE-AI-Blocklist

Re: DuckDuckGo now lets you hide AI-generated images in search results

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Post by thehoff »

jurgenkesker wrote: post #6

I 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’ve noticed Etsy has a lot of AI art showing up (prints, mugs, etc).

Re: DuckDuckGo now lets you hide AI-generated images in search results

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Post by supertrope »

SteveVeilStream wrote: post #49

A risk is that it will give people a false sense of confidence that they are viewing real content. The only way out of this mess is cryptographic methodss (based on hardware in cameras) that can allow end-users to verify photos as real and then we assume every other photo may be AI.

If only it were that easy. The camera manufacturer keys would leak. Key revocation would be too difficult. PKI is hard.

Re: DuckDuckGo now lets you hide AI-generated images in search results

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Post by supertrope »

Taek wrote: post #52
SteveVeilStream wrote: post #49

A risk is that it will give people a false sense of confidence that they are viewing real content. The only way out of this mess is cryptographic methodss (based on hardware in cameras) that can allow end-users to verify photos as real and then we assume every other photo may be AI.

Cryptographic components in cameras have roots of trust that can be compromised as well. Also, photos can be staged (many famous examples of this). The only real solution is to build social infrastructure that helps people identify the trustworthiness of a source. Some efforts are being made in both the centralized and decentralized directions.

It turns out librarians and teachers teaching media literacy and critical thinking still has great value!

"Are the author's conclusions supported by the facts they present?" "Is their assertion internally consistent?" "What do you think the author is trying to make you feel and do by consuming this content?" "Is this a primary or secondary source?" "Can this be independently verified?" "Is the source credible?"

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