This is the most common blocked site on ublacklist lists and kagi and probably it is also on many of the common dns blocklist.
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).
Aside from making search useless, it just demotivates everyone. No reason to use a social media site that appears full of bots.
Currently looking for an actual house on real estate aggregators, and feeling the same way
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.
“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
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.
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.
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?"
It would be an endless source of memes to try and make the most obviously fake image have the "verified real" badge.
How does that work?
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.
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
