We already warned you, AI is ruining the internet and things have not improved. I recently talked about how Etsy, the craft platform par excellence, had become a minefield riddled with AI. I have encountered this problem myself by searching for decoration ideas or haircuts on Pinterest. Distinguish what is real and what is not It’s impossible. Given this scenario, someone has had a radical idea: travel to the past
Slop Evader
This is the name of the invention of Tega Brainan artist and researcher who, like many people, is also tired of finding AI in absolutely every corner of the internet. The author admits in 404media that he was thinking of ways to avoid all the AI ’slop’ that plagues the internet and “the simplest and silliest way to do it is to only look before 2022.”
Slop Evader is a browser extension that filters searches so that only results older than November 30, 2022 appear. Why that date? because it was on ChatGPT launch day.
The extension is compatible with Firefox and Chrome, which means that you can also install it on any Chromium-based browser such as Microsoft Edge, Brave, Opera or Vivaldi. To install it, simply access it through one of the following links:
Return to the pre-AI era
This is what this extension wants to achieve. After installing it, we can click on the extension icon and a panel like the one you can see in the image will open. In it, we have seven search fields for different websites: Google, Reddit, Quora, Stack Exchange, Mumset, Pinterest and YouTube. The author plans to expand the available sites.
Obviously, if you need to find updated results, this tool is not for you, since you will only be able to see things from three years ago. But the objective of Slop Evader is not to be a productivity tool, but to denounce a situation that, far from improving, seems to be every day it gets worse.
Of course, even though it is not its objective, it has already been useful to me and I have been able to look for ideas for curly haircuts without the AI ending up confusing me.
The permanent doubt
Until recently it was relatively easy to detect what was made with AI and what was not. The first slop either AI filth that flooded the networks It was detected instantly; Of course, these were animals and people with impossible anatomies that transformed into the most disturbing beasts.
The arrival of new video generation tools like Sora 2 They have made many videos pass as real. Who hasn’t had an AI video shared without knowing it? And if they haven’t shared it with you, you probably have.
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Much AI content is still detectable to the trained eye, but the arrival of Nano Banana Pro has crossed the line of what is real and what is not. A few days ago my colleague Javier Lacort said that we have just entered the era of permanent doubtone in which looking at an image will automatically make us suspicious and think twice before sharing it, lest we end up looking like a boomer. Is extra cognitive work What we will have to do with each of the images we see every day. It’s no small thing.
And there is not only generative AI in social networks. I commented at the beginning about the case of Etsy, but the thing is that AI is reaching Idealista, where there are advertisements with immaculate houses that later turn out to be falling apart. The excuse is that “this is how you see how it would look renovated.”
Slop Evader He reports the problem, but it doesn’t solve it. This will require a more forceful effort on the part of the large platforms and even governments that will allow real images to be verified from those generated by AI.
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