DuckDuckGo has a “hide ai images” setting. It seems it also blocks these videos. I’m not getting any of those videos in your screenshot if I search on DDG.
I can advise anyone to install DeArrow.
Instead of having every thumbnail screaming at me, YouTube is now much calmer in general. Even the clickbait titles are replaced by crowdsourced alternatives.
No more “TOP 5 Reasons Why You SHOULD use/not use something ❌❌/✅✅”, but “review of something” instead.
I have a different approach, for me the idiotic title is a red flag that I shouldn’t watch the video in the first place. But for thumbnails it seems like the only way to survive on youtube is to make a youtube face in thumbnail pointing at something, even the respectable and interesting channels are doing it
YouTube made changes, and the YouTube reps who deal with creators have given them marching orders that they need to follow or else no money. Every one of the creators I sub has dedicated a video to how things have to be now, and they know we hate it, and they hate it. But there’s nothing they can do because YouTube is their source of income.
There is this blocklist:
Thank you !
You can use uBlacklist with a list of AI websites to filter out a ton of crap in search results. It’s good for blocking out AI slop websites but probably won’t be too effective for individual YouTube videos.
No. Ublock blocks elements, it does not look at the contents.
If there were something in the elements indicating it, it could, but that seems unlikely.
It could block websites/CDNs that host them if such a list existed though.
Sooo… YouTube?
Problem solved!
If only they’d put all the slop under one sub domain!
“It seemed to me,” said Wonko the Sane, “that any civilization that had so far lost its head as to need to include a set of detailed instructions for use in a package of toothpicks, was no longer a civilization in which I could live and stay sane.”
before:2022 might work
Kagi has an LLM community register they automatically use to filter their results
That really paints a dark future
I did not need the information in this video, but it’s only a matter of time before helpful guides are overwhelmed with this shit
I wonder if sponsor skip’s database can be repurposed to include ai slop publishers
I forgot about that. DeArrow would work great for this.
If it cannot remove the video, it can at least replace slop video titles and thumbnails with a blank rectangle and an empty space character.
Amazing idea
Ironically you need AI to detect AI output in the content offered to you and to block it. Though in theory some heuristics for the visuals in the thumbnails could work.
Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.
That’s not what they asked.
Tough shit.
Awww… poor thing.
Does that do anything beyond disabling DuckDuckGo’s own AI answering box at the top? Because I still get AI generated results on sites.
Pay for Kagi. You want free? Ads and AI slop is the price for it. You want quality human shit? Pay for kagi
It’s YouTube.
Yay! Capitalism saved the day
