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Search tool that only returns content created before ChatGPT's public release

https://tegabrain.com/Slop-Evader
44•dmitrygr•1h ago

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johng•1h ago
I don't know how this works under the hood but it seems like no matter how it works, it could be gamed quite easily.
cryzinger•23m ago
If it's just using Google search "before <x date>" filtering I don't think there's a way to game it... but I guess that depends on whether Google uses the date that it indexed a page versus the date that a page itself declares.
madars•11m ago
Date displayed in Google Search results is often the self-described date from the document itself. Take a look at this "FOIA + before Jan 1, 1990" search: https://www.google.com/search?q=foia&tbs=cdr:1,cd_max:1/1/19...

None of these documents were actually published on the web by then, incl., a Watergate PDF bearing date of Nov 21, 1974 - almost 20 years before PDF format got released. Of course, WWW itself started in 1991.

Google Search's date filter is useful for finding documents about historical topics, but unreliable for proving when information actually became publicly available online.

qwertygnu•21m ago
True, but there's probably many ways to do this and unless AI content starts falsifying tons of its metadata (which I'm sure would have other consequences), there's definitely a way.

Plus other sites that link to the content could also give away it's date of creation, which is out of the control of the AI content.

CGamesPlay•8m ago
"Gamed quite easily" seems like a stretch, given that the target is definitionally not moving. The search engine is fundamentally searching an immutable dataset that "just" needs to be cleaned.
1gn15•34m ago
Does this filter out traditional SEO blogfarms?
JKCalhoun•15m ago
Yeah, might prefer AI-slop to marketing-slop.
swyx•27m ago
somebody said once we are mining "low-background tokens" like we are mining low-background (radiation) steel post WW2 and i couldnt shake the concept out of my head

(wrote up in https://www.latent.space/i/139368545/the-concept-of-low-back... - but ironically repeating something somebody else said online is kinda what i'm willingly participating in, and it's unclear why human-origin tokens should be that much higher signal than ai-origin ones)

jeffchuber•12m ago
that was me swyx
anticensor•19m ago
You should call it Predecember, referring to the eternal December.
themanmaran•11m ago
The low-background steel of the internet

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-background_steel

tkgally•5m ago
Somewhat related, the leaderboard of em-dash users on HN before ChatGPT:

https://www.gally.net/miscellaneous/hn-em-dash-user-leaderbo...

'A full-blown crisis': Americans brace for a surge in healthcare costs

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52•mmarian•37m ago•34 comments

Search tool that only returns content created before ChatGPT's public release

https://tegabrain.com/Slop-Evader
46•dmitrygr•1h ago•15 comments

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