Mastodawn

https://tech.slashdot.org/story/26/02/20/2243230/pinterest-is-drowning-in-a-sea-of-ai-slop-and-auto-moderation

yeah, no sympathy.
these assholes shitted up all the google image search results for years with "the exact image youre looking for but when you click on it, you get to a landing page that forces you to create an account to get the image"

sounds like the same issues imgur has now - the owners hollowed out the brand and use it for litch/zombie flavored SEO to get ad clicks. the 'community' is gone

Pinterest Is Drowning in a Sea of AI Slop and Auto-Moderation - Slashdot

Users say Pinterest has become flooded with AI-generated images and heavy-handed automated moderation, with artists reporting wrongful takedowns and their hand-drawn work mislabeled as "AI modified." As the company doubles down on AI features and layoffs, longtime users argue the platform's creative...

machine breaker 4d ago

@Viss we have successfuly taught the children that everything is a lie and nothing matters. Its going to work out fine i am sure

@h2onolan ive already seen websites that look straight up 90s mode, with tiny rectangles for friend sites and webrings and shit.

machine breaker 4d ago

@Viss glorious. No clankers allowed.

@h2onolan i get the impression the solution to finding out which users are clankers is gonna end up being easier than we thought because of some dumb, overlooked thing

@Viss @h2onolan have to Make ASCII art

@BabblingGeek @h2onolan i have! i should make more:

https://16colo.rs/pack/layerone_demoparty_2019/vs-layerone.ans

https://www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/30599493

https://www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/30599512

2019/layerone_demoparty_2019/vs-layerone.ans - layerone logo by viss

layerone - layerone logo by viss

@BabblingGeek @h2onolan i think my uhi logos are way better than my layerone text. im still very much a noob

@Viss @h2onolan IRC days we used to try and make a boat collaboratively in chat. I wonder if AI can do that.

@BabblingGeek @h2onolan it cant. but there are collab drawing platforms both for freehand stuff assuming you have a tablet and like, clipstudio, and also for drawing ansi/ascii. i cant remember if it was mistigris or sixteencolors but one of them hosted a thing once, and i went to play on it. it was fun!

also there are still groups putting out .ans art packs. its nuts! i love it!

DeltaWye 3d ago

@Viss @h2onolan Honestly I think it’s gonna be like finding Nazi spies with the “What’s the second stanza of the Star Spangled Banner?” question.

You ask something absurd or difficult and see how they respond.

unixjunk1e 🌵4d ago

@Viss @h2onolan
Bring back marquee tags!

@unixjunk1e @h2onolan dude i miss the blink and marquee tags. i used them to great effect on cnn.com for years back when they had blatant xss they refused to fix

unixjunk1e 🌵4d ago

@Viss Pinterest felt like slop long before AI...

@unixjunk1e it totally did, yeah

@Viss #kagi search list of top domains blocked by their users is very telling. It was like this even before the proliferation of AI slop images.

Tim Lavoie 4d ago

@rickoooooo @Viss On the other hand, this is a good reminder that Kagi is pretty great.

Delta Sierra 4d ago

@Viss Pinterest is drowning?

Good.

Oh, you want nuance? They've wasted tons of my time and bandwidth, I can only hope they're awake and aware while they go. Also, I hope it drags on and on and on AND ON.

Fuckers.

tripleman, a 🇨🇦 in 🇩🇪4d ago

@notthatdelta Perfect. No notes.

Matilda Love 4d ago

i remember when imgur was first announced on reddit

with hindsight, i feel confident the SEO/clicks thing was the goal all along

Thales_Curiosities 4d ago

@Viss your instagram account is drowning in ai slop too especially if the algorithm thinks you like them

NeonkAaa 4d ago

@Viss I do not get why they do not sue them? I mean, PI illegally reassign the authorship from humans to someone else. And also PI kinda do reputational impact on real authors.

Mutesplash 4d ago

@Viss Pinterest was doing AI before it was AI: Laundering image ownership.

Tubemeister 4d ago

@Viss even if you have an account, that image quite often turned out to be a low res thumbnail and a dead link.