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Posted by rdmuser 16 hours ago

AI uBlock Blacklist(github.com)
202 points | 89 commentspage 2
dimava 8 hours ago|
Also check the https://botblock.ai/ , AI extension to detect AI replies on twitter
add-sub-mul-div 7 hours ago|
That's a curious one, Twitter is worthless anyway. Before AI bots proliferated, the change to rank paid accounts high in replies turned it into a de facto entry level $8/month advertising tier.
ossa-ma 7 hours ago||
Glad we're moving in this direction, I've also got a tool that I use to determine if writing is AI using common tropes and reconstruct the OG prompt from it: https://tropes.fyi/aidr
mh- 7 hours ago|
Haha, that's a neat idea. Thanks for sharing.

https://tropes.fyi/aidr/b184cf3a

https://tropes.fyi/aidr/9b132f92

ramon156 8 hours ago||
I would rather have a whitelist that adds a nice tag at the end of the link, indicating that overall it has high quality content. This also forces you to periodically check the sites you've whitelisted
greyman 5 hours ago||
Meta question: do you guys feel the adblockers will maybe not be that important in the future? As for myself, I ended up to use just a few websites, but those are reputable and I don't mind a few ads they provide. The only adblock which is still very much needed is one for Youtube.
diath 5 hours ago||
According to uBlock Origin it blocked 9.5 million requests to ads/third party trackers since I installed it. So yes, it's very much needed.
Grom_PE 4 hours ago|||
I feel that blocking, substituting, and even inserting user-defined resources for a website must be a native browser feature.
xboxnolifes 5 hours ago|||
I dont think this is a sign of the times or the future. I think its just your own personal browsing habits.
TacticalCoder 2 hours ago||
I used to run pihole on a Pi and now I directly run unbound, still on a Pi. The difference on a great many sites is night and day: you simply get way fewer ads. And that's just by using a DNS blocklist.

Occasionally I'll get one site that refuses to load because I've got an "adblocker" but most sites do work fine, just with way fewer ads.

greyman 2 hours ago||
I usually now just ask agent, for example Gemini in Antigravity to check certain article or a group of articles, like "check all AI-related article in tldr.tech and tell what is interesting"... I am already a bit lazy to browse myself, and in this process I dont care about ads.
jadar 3 hours ago||
I feel like this is a bit of a sinking ship. I suppose if you want to avoid known sources of slop then this works … but beyond that it’s a bit of a lost cause. It’s like sports betting — once it’s there then there’s no saying who is (ab)using it.
semiinfinitely 7 hours ago||
Tragic twist: repo was entirely AI generated
mixtureoftakes 7 hours ago|
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afcool83 11 hours ago||
Admirable idea and execution…but it does apply opposing evolutionary/economic pressure for AI-slop to become less detectable over time. AI will learn and adapt.

Metaphorically speaking, it’s the Borg we’re dealing with, not the Klingons. All Janeway did was slow the Borg’s progress.

mapontosevenths 10 hours ago||
Cory Doctorow wrote a story ~20 years ago about how the first sentient machines would be spam bots because their job is to pass as human, and anti-spam systems provide competitive evolutionary pressure.

He may not be too far off.

tetris11 9 hours ago||
This one?

https://craphound.com/overclocked/Cory_Doctorow_-_Overclocke...

mapontosevenths 8 hours ago||
I think that's the one. I was a bit off on the timing, it's not 20 yet. Great read either way.

From the story:

“Spam-filters, actually. Once they became self-modifying, spam-filters and spam-bots got into a war to see which could act more human, and since their failures invoked a human judgement about whether their material were convincingly human, it was like a trillion Turing-tests from which they could learn. From there came the first machine-intelligence algorithms, and then my kind.”

alansaber 7 hours ago|||
It's actually rather difficult for SoTA models to shift tone without losing performance on various datasets, so not such a one-sided arms race.
smohare 8 hours ago||
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Dwedit 9 hours ago||
What happens if a legitimate site (forums, wiki, etc) gets mass-spammed with slop?
harladsinsteden 9 hours ago|
I ceases to be legitimate.
firebot 9 hours ago||
Firefox already feeling more responsive.
metalman 9 hours ago|
flip it, and build green(organic) lists perhaps work towards having sites than dont just, not use AI, but never talk about it it's not just AI, search is a scam, no mojo in the world can extract the contact info for the business next door and the mountains of porncoin, scamulous garbage and hate news taking up a full 50% of whats left, does in fact make a determined effort to greenwall a section of the web something to consider