DuckDuckGo Now Lets You Hide AI-Generated Images In Search Results (techcrunch.com) 12
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Privacy-focused browser DuckDuckGo is rolling out a new setting that lets users filter out AI images in search results. The company says it's launching the feature in response to feedback from users who said AI images can get in the way of finding what they're looking for.
Users can access the new setting by conducting a search on DuckDuckGo and heading to the Images tab. From there, they will see a new dropdown menu titled "AI images." Users can then choose whether or not they want to see AI content by selecting "show" or "hide." Users can also turn on the filter in their search settings by tapping the "Hide AI-Generated Images" option. "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. "While it won't catch 100% of AI-generated results, it will greatly reduce the number of AI-generated images you see." DuckDuckGo says it has plans to add other similar filters in the future.
Users can access the new setting by conducting a search on DuckDuckGo and heading to the Images tab. From there, they will see a new dropdown menu titled "AI images." Users can then choose whether or not they want to see AI content by selecting "show" or "hide." Users can also turn on the filter in their search settings by tapping the "Hide AI-Generated Images" option. "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. "While it won't catch 100% of AI-generated results, it will greatly reduce the number of AI-generated images you see." DuckDuckGo says it has plans to add other similar filters in the future.
Except for the ones... (Score:1)
...that Fearless Leader Putin decrees must be shown.
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DDG is American, you're thinking of Yandex.
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noai.duckduckgo.com (Score:5, Informative)
You can also use noai.duckduckgo.com [duckduckgo.com] to do searches if you want to avoid an AI summary and also AI generated images (hopefully AI generated articles too, but I doubt it).
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There has been an option in the Search Settings for turning off AI-generated summaries for a while now.
The "Hide AI-Generated Images" option is new though (to me, at least).
I don't usually use DuckDuckGo for images. It annoys me to high hell that unlike on other search engines, I have to right-click on the link under each image to open it in a new tab or window.
There have been too many times that I thought I had opened a number of image search results in a new tab each, and then realise that I've only opene
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If you're a user of start.ddg.com, three URL params can be added to disable the AI: ?kpsb=-1&kbg=-1&kbe=0&kbj=1
(this disables AI instant, AI answers and AI images) https://start.duckduckgo.com/?... [duckduckgo.com]
Word missing (Score:2)
The title suggests an identifying feature while all it does is hiding KNOWN AI pictures on a list.
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And the list concept concerns me. Are these lists appealable? If not, then they're abusable.
Also, the line between "AI generated" and "non-AI generated" is ever more fuzzy. AI is used for upscaling. AI is used in cameras to enhance images taken. AI is used to make the sort of minor edits that are done the world over in Photoshop. Etc. There's also the fact that this is done with image fingerprinting, which is fuzzy, so then any images that have minor modifications done with AI which get added to the li
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It's a time-waste anyway, in a couple of years, they won't be any other than AI pictures.
Why would fashion designers pay for photographers, models, lighting, studios etc just to display some clothes on a skinny model and photoshop the hell out of it later on top?