A Showcase of AI Polluting the Internet

Before Ai Pinterest had stolen pictures without crediting or linking to the real artists while this shit got pushed to every image search. I hope this will be its final nail in the coffin.

People posting pictures without crediting or linking to the artist? Who would've thought that could happen on my Internet
Before Ai Pinterest had stolen pictures without crediting or linking to the real artists
Truly they were ahead of the times.
Yeah that's what this guy is doing. Then he cries about "AI".

I explicitly filter out pinterest from my search results because it's garbage

It's weird that the OP has such high regard for Pinterest. I have always seen it as search-result polution and never really understood why it exists, other than as proof that we need to have search functions like "-site:____".
- There would be times in the past I would search something and the only result of an image or list would be Pinterest.
  I would just go without.
- Again, I was going off of OOP who apparently found use in the site.

Ah, Pinterest. The site I would go to to look at things, it would say "you can't look at things without an account" and I would say, "then I won't" ... and I would then leave.

Oh, don’t forget the search result that showed a pinterest image that you click on to see a high res version, but the image is nowhere to be found after landing on the pinterest site.
Even if you had an account it’s still shit.
Everything needs a fucking account these days. The net used to be great, but it seems we're at an inflection point to see if it's just gonna keep getting worse. I'm not too hopeful unfortunately
Yeah I had enough of their crap to the point I got an addon that removes them from search/image results.
duckduckgo's image search is the best way to peruse pinterest images

Somewhat unrelated, but I'm glad to see more and more posts using xcancel.

Xcancel is just nitter. I think writing 'nitter.net' is easier than trying to spell cancel, lol. But it's good to have many different servers.

How is it possible to filter out those images? The ads are easy, but LLM content is harder when it comes to automatic removal.

Ostensibly the onus would be on the user not to post them in the first place (or at least tag them), but if the users are spammers then… shrug.
Maybe we should have small, networked clusters of minimal-profit communities interested in moderating themselves? Nah, the internet was never like that…
- That would be nice, but who's going to pay for it? Because free hosting is pretty rare, nowadays.
Pinterest would need to hire people to better moderate their content.
Add "-pintarest" without quotes to your search.

And these tweets are almost a year old. His Pinterest feed must just be a white screen by now.

Wow who'd have thought there were no real photos of ogres? I'm shocked.

but actual artwork does exist? so when you want art references for style references, why should you be forced to see a bunch of AI?

AI is not polluting, the users are… AI does only what is asked.

A big issue with AI is precisely how just a few people can inundate the rest of us with their mass-produced slurry of AI content.
- Just like photography did once remove the painter from making a selfie 🤷🏼 The tools are not the problem, it’s the users that think they should put everything online as if it is a big achievement.
That true, but I don't think its a helpful way of looking at it.
- Actually it is, always avoiding responsibility by putting the blame on tools instead of the users that pollute everyone’s timeline is not helping anything. If no one posts these pictures on Pinterest or any other platform then there wouldn’t be any.
True but pinterest needs to ban AI
- Or the users that post the bs… I think that would clean up much more.

Amazing to see that some people still have not banned Pinterest from their search results.

How is the AI/Non AI decided? It's very low resolution, but there dwarf on the right seems very detailed to be AI (at least pure AI).