Amazing to see that some people still have not banned Pinterest from their search results.
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
duckduckgo's image search is the best way to peruse pinterest images
Yeah I had enough of their crap to the point I got an addon that removes them from search/image results.
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.
Never understood what pinterest was for, either. Kinda like sharing images or links?, but it's almost impossible to find the source link of whatever people posted when they did so
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.
Before Ai Pinterest had stolen pictures without crediting or linking to the real artists
Truly they were ahead of the times.
People posting pictures without crediting or linking to the artist? Who would've thought that could happen on my Internet
Yeah that's what this guy is doing. Then he cries about "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.
Yes, I agree. OK, now let's say 99% of users online agree that low quality content shouldn't be posted online. And then imagine there is some kind of technology that allows the 1% of "bad users" (the ones who don't care about low quality) to upload a thousand times more than other users can. It would follow that 90% of content online would be from these users that only represent 1% of the population. Do you see the problem?
Pinterest was already a sinkhole, best to be avoided. My problem is de statement that the OP made. AI isn’t the problem, its the people that think their rubbish is great and push it into our face so to speak. If someone builds a crappy shed, we can blame the hammer but in reality it is the self-appointed carpenter that created the mess.
What is your genius solution to handle these naughty users, then?
If you fail to respond within 3 business days, we will continue with our plan to nuke OpenAI from orbit.
Where did I say I have a solution… I know at least one thing, and that is that blaming AI for this definitely wont solve anything.
But removing AI would solve something, eh? Seems more effective than yours, then.
I guess removing hammers will do away with poorly built sheds as well. Good idea, let’s do it, removing all tooling in the world that might have a sub-optimal result.
No, there's no need for that. I don't see how banning hammers would help with Internet spam—just the AI will do.
You can't catch me in a logical trap here, hoefnix, because there isn't one. I'm mom saying you aren't allowed to play with silly string in the house; it's too much to clean up.
Ah, your lack of capability to understand a hyperbole explains a lot. I’m dad here saying, if you want to learn you have to practice, just don’t bother people with the results until they’re worthwhile.
What is it I'm practicing?
Are you this daft or just pulling my leg?
I choose "daft." Now explain.
What do I need to explain, and if I do will you be able to understand? Think I will pass on this one.
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.
I don't think it is about avoiding responsibility.
Often when people say that some thing is bad, they are talking about the effects of its misuse; and the goal is to reduce / prevent that misuse by persuading other people to change their behaviour. But it is generally easier to persuade someone that their tool is bad rather than they themselves are bad. If they believe the use of the tool is a problem, they may stop using it that way. But they will basically never come to believe that they themselves are the problem.
True but pinterest needs to ban AI
Or the users that post the bs… I think that would clean up much more.
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?
Fun fact if they removed those images the other ones would scoot up. It's a reactive design.
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).
And these tweets are almost a year old. His Pinterest feed must just be a white screen by now.
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.
Pinterest would need to hire people to better moderate their content.
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.
That would be nice, but who’s going to pay for it? Because free hosting is pretty rare, nowadays.
The Fediverse is working OK. So are some image hosts like catbox.
I dunno about at scale, but the old idea is that nothing really needs to be the scale of Facebook, Pintrest or whatever. Bulk storage is reasonable. A single modern server can do a lot.
Add "-pintarest" without quotes to your search.
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