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.
Before long we’ll need a second internet just for real people, as this internet will just be all bots and AI content. Dead internet indeed.
Or better yet, maybe I can get some real hobbies outside of tech.
Incidentally, it is a site blessedly free of extra features that add nothing to the use case (sharing things you make).
This is the most common blocked site on ublacklist lists and kagi and probably it is also on many of the common dns blocklist.
Currently looking for an actual house on real estate aggregators, and feeling the same way
Aside from making search useless, it just demotivates everyone. No reason to use a social media site that appears full of bots.
I know there are good recipe sites out there, you just will never find them, unless our search engine overlords slip and let one through.
The good web still exists, it is just that the search engines(our gateway to the web) are unable to find it under all the trash. My only solution so far has to been to start manually curating a list of good sites. A big part of the problem as I understand it is the search engines heavily prioritize new content over good content. To the point if I see a date in the current year next to the search result, I instantly reject it as seo garbage. If I were a better person I would sign up for Kagi, as I firmly believe a large part of the solution is to fix the business/customer dynamics, that is, you want to be the customer, not the product. But I am reluctant to sign up for another service so I am stuck shoveling slop to get through the web.
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.
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.
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
How does that work?
It has a pretty high false positive rate though, but it reliably highlights AI generated spam websites and saves me from having to read them.
But for the love of Bob, would you please enable absolute operands ("" or +) in image searching? It's been on your todo list for over a decade.
Nowadays, putting in `-bar` might increase the number of results that are directly about bar.
“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.
[0] https://github.com/laylavish/uBlockOrigin-HUGE-AI-Blocklist
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.
But DDG scrapes some bottom feeder news publications. Newsweek and MSNBC wire reposts shouldn't be the top results. Ever. Those are ghost articles and link bait.
It would be an endless source of memes to try and make the most obviously fake image have the "verified real" badge.
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.
"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?"
vouaobrasil•6mo ago