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

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.

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.

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

I think even in this case, I might want to see CAD renderings, which I can't help but think might get swept closer to AI generated than "rendered".

> No I don't want AI houses

Currently looking for an actual house on real estate aggregators, and feeling the same way

I’m annoyed for you.

The use case of someone preferring AI generated material vs the real material seems only to strike the algorithm and retention time of users so they always feel a sense of having what they need - despite it not existing.

I miss when you could put `+foo -bar` into a search engine, ctrl-F on the top ten results, and reliably find `foo` on all ten of them and `bar` on none of them.

Nowadays, putting in `-bar` might increase the number of results that are directly about bar.

This bugs me no end. Image search is so challenging to use because the results are a vague interpretation of what you ask for, and don't try to be more descriptive because that's just more words to throw in the mix of results

If I’m looking for images because I’m curious what a thing really looks like, it’s counterproductive to see AI’s “artist’s conception” of it, which is often anywhere between not particularly accurate and a picture of something else entirely.

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.

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

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.

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."

Does Kagi skip these kinds of results?

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 see a lot of Google search results thar are websites dedicated to sharing AI art. It's not hard to keep a list of those going, and that will presumably remain a bit portion of it.

This is easy to check, and no they do not. I can see many photos on Bing of tank man.

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 Kagi is a game changer.

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.

That was because Bing wasn't as good as Google, but now they're kinda even... because Google became much worse.

ddg pretty consistently fails to return expected a results, compared to google.

It’s a shame, I don’t want to stay with google, but it still does best fit my needs for search.

Ex: tumblr.com/ddgvsggl

The amount of medical advice on those LLM content farms is very concerning, someone is going to get hurt eventually. I recently made a user script that tries to highlight LLM generated text and sometimes when I search things more than half the results are garbage and the entire articles (including the bios of the supposed professionals who write the articles!) get highlighted purple. One way to avoid them in a pinch when the content isn't time sensitive is to filter out anything from after November 1st 2021, but it's not ideal. I hope duck duck go finds a way to filter the AI pages out.

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

Wrong thread?