More of a “waiting while cloud flare verifies my humanity thought” but this is the closest c/ I could find.
It’s getting ridiculous. The internet is ruined.
Search for something simple like how to change a tire and you get a 10 page article starting with “Firstly, what is a tire? Well…”
First of all, that’s an amazing question. You’ve tackled a serious issue in car mechanics (emdash) not only is it a common issue drivers face, but it’s foundational to the understanding of vehicular operations.
(emoji, header) Preparation
First, you’ll need to fill the inner tube to the brim with Elmer’s school glue… (continued)
kinda in the mold of what you want: https://github.com/laylavish/uBlockOrigin-HUGE-AI-Blocklist and https://github.com/cpeterso/clickbait-blocklist/
Wow. uBlock Origin is a lot more useful that I originally thought. Thanks.
THANK YOUU
Maybe something like a crowd sourced browser extension to block or warn against a blacklist of known slop sites?
There is this: https://github.com/laylavish/uBlockOrigin-HUGE-AI-Blocklist
Some search engines let you block sites from future results. If I’m on my desktop, I’ll knock out the obvious ones on the first page of a search. It’s not much, but it’s honest work.
I’ve been hoping something like this comes along. I dont have the time or knowledge to do it myself.
I’ve started to add date limits to my web queries for things that don’t require current information like recipes.
No I do not want to see your AI slop recipe for tomato sandwiches “author” from 2025, I’ll go with a shitty web blog from 2021 thank you very much.
AI has helped me with recipes more than anything else. It skips over all of the advertising slop and stories that recipe sites have.
Find better websites. Use kagi.
It skips over all the advertising slop and stories
That’s what ad block and a scroll wheel are for.
Even with Adblock the sites are garbage and it’s frustrating to scroll through a bunch of nonsense to find the recipe and then decide I don’t like it. It’s much easier to have a few recipes summarized for me.
One of my go to sites has a jump to recipe button…works on my computer but fails on my phone 😔
The recipes are good enough to put up with the inconvenience
Same tbh. Ive done more cooking now then ever because i can just ask for substitues then and there. I will say, against slop, i have noticed the old recipe site style but with that AI slop verbosity out there. I find that worse then what it was.
Homesteaf blogs also tend to have helpful.hints i like thst ai would know to tell me
Being able to substitute ingredients I don’t have or just basing a recipe off of what needs to be eaten is great.
Nothing on a screen can be trusted. If only they weren’t so addictive…
I assume everything I read on the Internet is someone’s opinion. Unless it’s about an Internet thing, by the company that made that thing.
Like finding usage articles for Windows/office/whatever, on Microsoft’s website…
Half of Microsoft’s documentation is just fanfiction anyway
It very much used to be.
Some of the newer stuff they’ve been putting out has been surprisingly good. Full explanations of how things interact, descriptions of what each option does, what options are available, how to configure things, useful examples…
Then you get to one option called something like “-outputformat” or something and the docs literally just say “this option configures the output format”, and you fall flat on your face and perish.
Maybe don’t take some randos blog post a face value
Make the author solve a CAPTCHA for each page load too.
A search engine that does something like this might actually be pretty revolutionary.
Does your website have a phone number with a real person that answers? No? Gtfo
Mostly, I was just enjoying the mental image of some beleaguered tech blogger wearily solving CAPTCHA after CAPTCHA when they get slashdotted or something.
It’s honestly getting to the point where I almost wish someone with know how would train an AI to block AI slop from my internet
You don’t even have to realy train anything. There are more than enought ai checkers online. You would simply have to package one of them in a browser addon
If you ever see such a thing, please let me know. My areas of expertise lie in other places.
No need for any new extensions. Just add a new uBlock filter for AI slop.
With the quality of Assumed Intelligence detectors, this is unlikely to ever come to pass, especially since humans are involved.
Crowdsourced block list is probably the best approach to this.
Then people could apply that blocklist however they prefer.
Realistically, if someone wanted to put a bunch of nice sounding garbage in front of you to farm clicks/ad impressions, does it really matter how it was made? Like, maybe they used AI to generate a bunch of good sounding text, but what if they just paid some company to have extremely cheap labor from some areas of the world write it instead?
You’d be viewing human written information, but it’s still garbage.
That’s fair. Slop existed before AI too. If there was only a search engine algorithm that could rank how relevant a web page is… Someone could make a lot of money with that, maybe even build a huge corporation on that idea.
That would be a great service, shame no one has tried that yet.
