AI scams have infiltrated the knitting and crochet world - why it matters for everyone
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Using AI, scammers are creating frustrating - and expensive - problems for makers. Here's how to spot AI-generated patterns - and why anyone who relies on downloaded instructions should pay attention.

Like most people, I use the internet to look for inspiration for my hobbies, like cooking, baking, crochet, lettering etc. AI scammers and AI slop are killing my enthusiasm though. I’m using too much time and energy to sift though all the crap in order to find some gems.

What I need is some place to collect and curate trustworthy websites and do a websearch in those sites instead of the whole web whenever I need a recipe or are looking for my next fiber project. Does anybody have ideas or tips how to pull that of?

  • drspod@lemmy.ml
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    1 day ago

    You can install this blacklist with either uBlockOrigin or uBlacklist. It’s still being updated:

    https://github.com/laylavish/uBlockOrigin-HUGE-AI-Blocklist

    uBlockOrigin & uBlacklist Huge AI Blocklist

    A huge blocklist of manually curated sites (1000+) that contain AI generated content, for the purposes of cleaning image search engines (Google Search, DuckDuckGo, and Bing) with uBlock Origin or uBlacklist.

    Also works on mobile (iOS, iPadOS, Android) via uBlacklist, as well as pihole/adguard (via Hosts file)