DuckDuckGo now lets you hide AI-generated images from search results

[harlan4096]

Ever since AI services became popular, AI-generated images are practically unavoidable. DuckDuckGo has introduced a new feature that lets you hide the AI slop.

I didn't know about this feature and only stumbled upon it in the DuckDuckGo subreddit, which I happened to visit during a brief DuckDuckGo outage yesterday.

Anyway, this AI-image blocker isn't a feature that is exclusive to the search engine. In fact, it is not an in-house solution at all, it relies on some filter lists such as the uBlockOrigin & uBlacklist Huge AI Blocklist, which you can find on GitHub. This is a manually curated list with 1000s of sites that contain AI generated imagery, it blocks the content from said websites.

You can use this filter list with uBlock Origin or the uBlackList add-on on Firefox, or any other browser that supports custom lists, like Brave Browser.  It's strange that I've only just come to know about this filter list, it might come in handy. Let's focus on DuckDuckGo's version here.

You can turn on the Hide AI-Generated Images option under https://duckduckgo.com/settings#aifeatures to filter the AI images from your search results. Btw, this is where you can disable Duck.ai, and Assist. I like this, you don't see Google or Bing giving you such controls.

Continue Reading...