It is a symptom of how slop is overwhelming actual results, because regular sites that use AI to ‘save costs’ will just perpetuate the slop and when 99% of results are slop then it doesn’t matter what your settings are.
Comment on Top DuckDuckGo Image Result for "Morse code chart". It gets worse the longer I look at it.
DABDA@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Most important error is that you have AI results set to show instead of hide.
snooggums@piefed.world 11 hours ago
tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 5 hours ago
When the AI bubble collapses there’s gonna be a big market for companies that can extract data that hasn’t been polluted by AI
lemmydividebyzero@reddthat.com 17 hours ago
What’s the default?
DABDA@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 hours ago
I don’t know offhand but I strongly suspect everything related to AI is defaulted to on.
Camille_Jamal@lemmy.zip 10 hours ago
In my experience (currently my only mobile browser) it will remember last setting, prefer no ai if unknown userbase preference and if there’s a known userbase preference it will do either yours or userbase depending on settings and version. Search assist (ai search summary) is on by default but will not force a generated answer. All of these settings have been easy and intuitive for me to toggle, though it is chromium based. I have seen better filtering and results on some searches on ddg than google, but that bar is so low bing can sometimes clear it.
Nindelofocho@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
This would still show up even if it was set to hide though right? This is an image result on a third party site. Imo its worse because theres no disclosure that its even AI
DABDA@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 hours ago
DDG’s description of that feature:
I run Firefox on Linux Mint with uBlockOrigin and uMatrix addons (with modified settings) so I can’t speak to the universality of my results, but it seems like DDG is pretty loose with how it categorizes and displays info.
With AI images set to hide on first search for “morse code chart” I get the following: Hide
Toggling the AI image setting to show instantly changes the results and displays these: Show (instant)
Without additional changes, just clicking the search button again slightly changes the results: show (re-search)
Toggling the AI image setting back to hide again instantly changes the results to: Hide (instant)
Re-running the search as is returns the same results as #1.
I’ve also previously had horrible luck getting the date filters to work when trying to use a bookmarklet style shortcut to add the dates as parameters in the address bar (they’re just completely ignored when a search is run that way for me), and as of ~2 days ago the date range just didn’t seem to work at all. I was trying to find a human authored post/article about the difference between opossums and possums and using a date range of 1950–2015 was still ONLY returning results post-2023 and they were all wordy slop.
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 19 hours ago
huh? these are image results on duckduckgo, why wouldn’t the duckduckgo “hide ai images” option work?
RickyRigatoni@piefed.zip 17 hours ago
How does duckduckgo flawlessly know what images are ai and not?
Cevilia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 hours ago
They rely on people reporting slop and denylist those sites.
Hazel@piefed.blahaj.zone 15 hours ago
They use an AI for that of course!
GargleBlaster@feddit.org 18 hours ago
Unfortunately it still shows, even when hiding AI. And I’m searching over the noai DDG Version