@pheonix It is *so* annoying.

Duckduckgo has a no ai search, which works as well as you’d expect. This morning, I heard of an artist and wanted to see more examples of his work. Even with “AI: hide,” about one in five images came from domains that seem dedicated to generating slop “in the style of” an artist.
And yeah, I could see the difference between flat art nouveau and shaded slop, but I shouldn’t need to waste my very limited energy on that.

I tagged those to ddg, hope they’ll shit list those domains.

@samir fish has successfully been rewritten in Rust. By the maintainer, because he wanted to do it, bit by bit.

As you say, the people are the important part. Everyone wants to replace them with slop these days. Until the house of cards crashes down and the slop spills everywhere.

@jollysea One of my first favourite cartoon porn sites was hosted on a tilde URL at the university of Uppsala.

Same time, IRC chats, forums, etc. Blogs soon after. Twitter was the beginning of the end, but we didn’t get it at the time. Thought only facebook was the enemy.