It’s getting a bit ridiculous out here. I’m using DuckDuckGo but since it aggregates its search from other sources, it’s also gotten bad recently. Is there a search out there that blocks domains that spam AI? Extra points if there’s something like Ublock Origin that filters things based on a community-made list.
Edit: I’m aware of Kagi but it’s pretty expensive and I’m not a fan that they, too, host their own AI tools.
It won’t block them, but I started to feel like recently DDG’s results were awful. I couldn’t find simple things. I’ve switched to startpage and had a much better experience. The results feel more aligned with what I want and I feel like there’s less crap. Its probably confirmation bias hah, but its working.
Unless I need something recent whenever I search I update the results to dates from like 1999 to 2021. Filters out a lot of unnecessary crap.
Kagi! You can block websites so they don’t show up. It’ll also flag websites that contain a lot of spam or ads.
Kagi lets you blacklist individual domains yourself, but I think what OP is asking is “is there a search engine that identifies and blacklists AI generated content itself”.
I think that the answer is probably that yes, probably all search engines try to block spam websites of any sort, AI-generated or no, and will do so all the time, or at least downrank them. Trying to present relevant, useful material at the top of the results is basically the business that search engines are in.
Now, do any do so to a level sufficient to fully eliminate them? I’d guess not. SEO spammers have been trying to pollute top results with their hits for about as long as search engines have been around, and trying to cheaply bulk-generate content that looks like something that the user might want is just the latest form this takes. My guess is that that’ll be a cat-and-mouse game for some time to come.
I think to claim to make an effort about that, I’m pretty sure I saw changelog about AI content detection at least for the image section.
Ah, gotcha, thanks.
I use uBlacklist to filter out stuff from search results, it works with a bunch of search engines. It has various lists you can subscribe to, also including anti-AI ones.
Try Mojeek - https://mojeek.com/
I’m actually using searxng and just blocking any website with blatantly written AI shitcontent.
Have you given Kagi an actual shake? If you are not interested in saving preferences longer term, you can keep cycling through free accounts. Now more than ever, it is a breath of fresh air. If I want a quick AI answer without scrolling through some ad-ridden web page, I just put a “?” at the end of my query. If not, I have no AI garbage on my results.
I love kagi but I don’t think it actively filters out ai generated content.
I know when searching for pictures you can disable AI generated images.
I think the hard part for a search engine is that unless there is some kind of identifying mark on the content, how do they know that an ai didn’t write a top 10 list of pastebin alternatives?
Well I’m installing this and you’re my new favorite person.
Looks good, thank you
in this github there is a bit of fuckery with the link notice he has an affiliate link for adblock plus instead of linking to the goddamn host list directly.
Do I just copy and paste this into my filter lists?
I wouldn’t, there are plenty of filter lists right from ublock itself which I trust more.
