R E KJust assembled a page on my personal website with instructions on how to disable AI features across many services(mainly ones I encounter/use, will surely have to add more to the list soon).
... and and and and ...@rek I love how petty turning off the whole labeling thing is. That's been around since before the whole LLM Craze. I'm sure it was powered by building heuristics off your emails (or just using simple decisions trees), but like. That's so petty. I have a Pixel rn and when you turn of Google Photo's (cause it's fucking annoying), they'll disable the "go to gallery" from the camera app.
@rek Also, I've been using Startmail in place of Protonmail after Proton announced their AI service via an autosigned up news letter:
Ostensibly, I wouldn't have cared about them spinning up an LLM service. However, they lost me with the autoenrollment into the product newsletter.
@rek For duckduckgo, if yo only want webs search, there is https://html.duckduckgo.com/html/ which is the plain HTML version of DDG.
Mer-fOKxTOwl@andnull @rek or https://noai.duckduckgo.com then you still have image search and such but not all the ai shit.
d@nny disc@ mc²@glowl @andnull @rek i figured out the url for autocomplete results https://circumstances.run/@hipsterelectron/115177960264636304
d@nny disc@ mc² (@[email protected])
https://mastodon.art/@TheGentleKlingon/115151028357873120 the autocomplete results url template is `https://noai.duckduckgo.com/ac/?type=list&q=%s`
gittaca@rek Final, thing, if you happen to use UBlock Origin, this bad boy is great:
https://github.com/laylavish/uBlockOrigin-HUGE-AI-Blocklist
https://github.com/laylavish/uBlockOrigin-HUGE-AI-Blocklist
GitHub - laylavish/uBlockOrigin-HUGE-AI-Blocklist: A huge blocklist of manually curated sites that contain AI generated imagery for uBlock Origin & uBlacklist.
A huge blocklist of manually curated sites that contain AI generated imagery for uBlock Origin & uBlacklist. - laylavish/uBlockOrigin-HUGE-AI-Blocklist
@andnull oof, ok ive removed Protonmail as an alternative. Ive never used it, hadnt heard of this tho.... >_>
Crimson Fork, Creature Friendly archivist 🏳️⚧️&Θ@andnull @rek Them being normal is almost as bad. We prefer the secret third option of just not worrying about computer centric places and hanging out with the weird queer gremlins that find liberals as insufferable as We do, then talk computer stuff with those.
More satisfying that way, because either they get excited in the sense of "finally, somemany who gets it", or in the sense of wagging their robotic tail.
Harpy
Viacheslav A@rek VS Code: chat.disableAIFeatures setting
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Grey the earthling@rek In DuckDuckGo's settings, the option is “Hide AI-Generated Images”, and so you probably want to switch it *On* instead.
@greytheearthling woops you're right! Just fixed it.
Paul J Wege@rek Recommending 'Untrap' for YouTube isn't the best idea when planning to deactivate AI features because it is offering the opposit. The german description of the add-on translated to "UnTrap for YouTube by Yevhen Tretiakov - Summarize YouTube videos with AI and remove shorts, ads, " and that's really close to the original english description "Ultimate
YouTube Toolkit - Summarize any video, eliminate distractions, remove ads, ...". Only difference: the english text is not using the word "AI", but we all know there is no other way for doing summarization. 😊
YouTube Toolkit - Summarize any video, eliminate distractions, remove ads, ...". Only difference: the english text is not using the word "AI", but we all know there is no other way for doing summarization. 😊
@makeratschool I wasnt rly aware of the summary part, ive never seen that as an option in the add-on itself(with how I use it, anyway, ill have to investigate further). I just use it to strip down the interface so i dont see anything but the essentials.
In any case, ive removed it. Ive never noticed that wording when isntalling the addon on Firefox *giant overdramatic sigh*. Thx for letting me know.
In any case, ive removed it. Ive never noticed that wording when isntalling the addon on Firefox *giant overdramatic sigh*. Thx for letting me know.
Csepp 🌢@rek @makeratschool I can recommend using Invidious. It still has distracting recommendations by default (maybe configurable if you make an account??), but just the fact that they are not personalized has been a huge boon for me.
Also, if you have a video that you know you will watch or listen to a lot (eg.: music playlists, repair guides), just download it.
Caveat: Youtube has been getting more and more aggressive with blocking alternative clients.
rostiger@rek Thanks for the instructions Rek. I just set my DDG settings.
I also moved away from Protonmail recently and am now using Migadu with Thunderbird. And finally I switched from Firefox to Librewolf which has been mostly working really well.
It's annoying we have to deal with this stuff but at the same time it feels like the momentum of resistance is growing and alternatives are gaining more recognition, support and quality as a result.
@rostiger NP ^^. What do you think about Librewolf? Since you said it's been "mostly" working well :P
@rek Occasionally it crashes unexpectedly and other times there are issues with certain websites. Sometimes I check if they reproduce with Firefox, other times not and most of the times I don't understand the causes. 😅 It could be that Librewolf has much stricter default settings, like not rendering DRM protected content, but I've never ventured into understanding what many of these settings actually mean or do. But also I don't need a lot of features like an account or syncing bookmarks (I just exported those manually).
Anyway, I keep Firefox installed as a backup, but so far it was hardly necessary.
Alistair BuxtonGitHub section doesn't work. There is no "visibility" option. Maybe because I have a Copilot Pro subscription (it's forced on selected "open source developers" automatically and you can't get rid of it.)
*_jߍyrope@Alistair Buxton -> It is in the text on the github: this link works, when ublock is installed: #^https://subscribe.adblockplus.org/?location=https%3A%2F%2Fraw.githubusercontent.com%2Flaylavish%2FuBlockOrigin-HUGE-AI-Blocklist%2Fmain%2Flist.txt&title=Sites+using+AI+generated+content
Stefan Bohacek@rek Nice! I started a similar blog post earlier this year, arguably I have not kept it up-to-date.
https://stefanbohacek.com/blog/opting-out-of-ai-in-popular-software-and-services/
@stefan Awesome! Yea, staying up-to-date is a tough ask anyhow, im almost certainly gonna have to update mine at some point as things change :/.
@rek When I originally posted this, someone suggested moving the list to a Github/Codeberg repo so that others could contribute. I did not find the bandwidth, but something perhaps worth considering yourself!
Andy Wootton@rek I applaud your dedication. I have just reduced the number of services I trust and greatly reduced my use of their hell-hole environments to a minimum. If we all reward good and punish evil, maybe they'll get the message.
Sunny@rek I wonder if something like this could be turned into a community effort à la JustDeleteMe... In any case, thanks for this, especially the pointer to the uBlock list.
Bodling@rek This looks great, thank you for the effort! There's also https://ublacklist.github.io , which may be worth adding, it's like uBlock but specifically for search engine results. And https://github.com/amitbl/blocktube for YouTube specifically, although can't vouch for how good it is yet.
Not directly relevant, but you may also be interested in this project about how to find things in spite of "AI" that @tzeentcha brought into existence and We help out with.