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ublock ai slop list? (lemmy.fish)

submitted 2 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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has anyone noticed pages that are just ai slop popping up recently? they have low quality information and serve no purpose but to waste time.

if you haven't experienced these, just search up a common tech problem and click on a generically named site. chances are, it will have a table of context and generally low quality writing. if you get lucky, there might also be some blatant lies in there(for example: this site claims garmin instinct watches have an sd card).

is there a ublock origin blocklist for these? thank you for suggestions.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I use uBlacklist with this filter and that generally keeps the repeat offenders at least out of image search, but clearing out every SEO-spam print-on-demand mimc-site was already a game of whack-a-mole before consumer LLMs became a thing; I imagine now it'd be like playing whack-a-mole with a hydra. Still, it does at least help.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Search engines need to start using AI detectors and drop the ranking way down when any significant portion of the page is AI generated.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 days ago

AI detectors are massively flawed. They have terrible accuracy and have high numbers of false positives. Especially over short bodies of text like parts of one page