Especially for image searches. I am sick and tired of seeing that ââartââ in every single search, and the only real alternative is to exclusively browse trustworthy sites. Iâve tried to check for extensions myself but all I can find are extensions that use AI to do something, none that block it in any way.
Does anyone have a recommendation?
I have been very interested in an extension like this myself recently, and I believe it is fully possible.
Isitai.com is currently working on a paid extension that allows to to spot AI images directly in your browser. Though it is not meant to block them before they show up.
An aggregated common block list might be necessary to make what we want happen. Or a desktop-app that scans for AI signature patterns in the entire frame buffer.
Iâve noticed that Pinterest is now so over-stuffed with falsely attributed AI-art that it is spilling over to Facebook communities, where people will celebrate water colors and oil paintings attributed to painters who never did them.
The first thing an AI-blocker extension should do is thus to cross reference all images with Pinterest, and just NOT show anything that is available there. Harsh, but the user might then choose to reveal a hidden image on a case-by-case basis. Deviant art is another community that is now chuck full of AI images. People donât repost from there very often, as artists there tend to claim ownership of the images themselves, but it might be nice to block out their entire catalogue as well.
iNaturalist released their automated species identification tool in 2017. Itâs not entirely clear since XKCDs arenât datestamped, but going by archive.org the page has been indexed since at least 2014. Assuming archive.org indexed it shortly after it was posted, iNaturalist got the research done two years ahead of schedule!
Ironically, one of the reasons AI imagery doesnât have voluntary tagging is because of the anti-AI sentiment. Itâs resulted in anti-AI witchhunts and abuse. So why should people flag themselves and paint a target on their backs like that? Since voluntary tagging is basically the only way to know if somethingâs AI generated, the extreme anti-AI folks have dug their own grave on this one.
PS, my avatar is AI-generated imagery.
The only option I can think of to avoid it is to sell your router and computers and move to a cabin in remote Montana- Iâm seriously considering it at this point
Imagine being so brainwashed by social media you discriminate against someone based on their age
Not technically possible.
I use Stable Diffusion to generate images, and that will put information in EXIF tags in the image. However:
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Your browser would have to download the images â not thumbnails â from the image search engine. In theory, I guess image search engines could provide a way to exclude ones that are explicitly flagging themselves in that way, but itâd be slow for your browser to do it.
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There is no guarantee that all AI image generation software will do the same.
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If anyone has modified it, made a derived image in Photoshop or GIMP or whatever, it wonât have the EXIF data.
I doubt that there will ever be a reliable way to detect AI-generated images just from the image data. You could make something that works for some generators today, but theyâll be heavily tied to the model and generator, and theyâll break down as things changeâŠand itâs a fast-moving field.
In the long run, it might be a better shot to try to identify images that are not AI-generated than those that are. Like, have cameras cryptographically sign the images they take or something, because it can be useful to show that an image is actually a legit photograph. But thatâll restrict what youâre finding, exclude images that one might want to keep.
For a solution that will become increasingly-less-viable, one might be able to cobble together something with Tineye. It can look for similar images, and images that existed prior to widespread use of generative AI probably werenât generated with it. But over time, more and more of the images out there will have been done after the rise of generative AI.
Hm âŠdang. I was hoping that there would at least be some sort of filter to remove pictures that are directly / openly tagged as AI art from searches, but I guess that would rely too much on the goodwill of the uploader to even use tags like these in the first place.
I mean, it wouldnât hurt to have it, but I doubt that itâd be too efficacious.
Iâve uploaded AI-generated images Iâve generated to two communities on lemmy that are focused on AI-generated imagery. My original image has the tags, but lemmy has built-in image hosting, which most people there use. It strips tags off the image (I assume to try to avoid people inadvertently doxxing themselves from photographs when they upload images taken where the camera embeds GPS location data in EXIF tags, which has been something of an issue in the past). Imgur also strips tags from uploaded images. I wouldnât be surprised if most image-hosting services probably do the same.
Itâs also a problem from a standpoint of AI training, because one of the more-significant issues that comes up is that you donât want to train AIs on AI-generated images, and people training AIs have no good way to filter them out either.
As soon as the extension exists, the websites will remove the tags, no site is going to willingly let themselves be filtered out of Google results, etc for something entirely in their control
AI art in its current form is an incredibly new phenomenon, maybe about a year or two old tops. If openAI have admitted thereâs no reliable way to detect chatGPT output, AI art is equally inscrutable to automated filtering.
tl;dr the world has changed again, we adapt