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Is there a search engine that blocks websites known to create low effort/AI generated articles? (lemm.ee)
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It's getting a bit ridiculous out here. I'm using DuckDuckGo but since it aggregates its search from other sources, it's also gotten bad recently. Is there a search out there that blocks domains that spam AI? Extra points if there's something like Ublock Origin that filters things based on a community-made list.

Edit: I'm aware of Kagi but it's pretty expensive and I'm not a fan that they, too, host their own AI tools.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Kagi! You can block websites so they don't show up. It'll also flag websites that contain a lot of spam or ads.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Kagi lets you blacklist individual domains yourself, but I think what OP is asking is "is there a search engine that identifies and blacklists AI generated content itself".

I think that the answer is probably that yes, probably all search engines try to block spam websites of any sort, AI-generated or no, and will do so all the time, or at least downrank them. Trying to present relevant, useful material at the top of the results is basically the business that search engines are in.

Now, do any do so to a level sufficient to fully eliminate them? I'd guess not. SEO spammers have been trying to pollute top results with their hits for about as long as search engines have been around, and trying to cheaply bulk-generate content that looks like something that the user might want is just the latest form this takes. My guess is that that'll be a cat-and-mouse game for some time to come.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I think to claim to make an effort about that, I'm pretty sure I saw changelog about AI content detection at least for the image section.