I have truly noticed a change in how I am engaging with content nowadays, I have become more reluctant on clicking on links to articles or videos that have been made in these last few years, and when I do I started by looking for clues if it has been generated by ai. if the voice is human or generated, if the pictures are of real events or slop. I mistrust everything. and it’s exhausting. earlier slop was easier to detect nowadays it’s becoming impossible.


a custom search string URL may be what you’re looking for
for example, I use the following with the Fennec fork of Firefox Android to restrict the date to before the public launch of ChatGPT, while simultaneously disabling DuckDuckGo’s AI features:
https://noai.duckduckgo.com/?q=%25s&df=1979-01-01..2022-11-29here’s DDG’s guide on search URL parameters; most major search engines should have similar documentation
Tested by searching for “Avengers Doomsday” which shouldn’t have returned anything about the movie this year.
It did. A lot.
…ffffffuuuuuuuuck