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?
Sorry, no specific tips. Maybe there’s a browser plug-in that makes it easy to whitelist websites in a search? I would pay for a search engine where actual human people regularly vet the websites included in it for factual information and unlabeled AI use.
I hadn’t looked into Kagi, as I only learned about it after I had started using Ecosia.
I just glanced through the info page, they let you customize your search results, and it seems like they do some curation of the results too. But they are also getting in on the AI search band wagon.
It might be best to return to the days of in-person gatherings of hobbyists. Like my mother and quilting circles.
The point of my doing hobbies is to distract me from how much I dislike interacting with other people, that and developing skills to necessary to work around the hindrances companies (ran by other people) are introducing into practically every product and service I use.
Then there’s really not a lot you can do short of manually curating everything or making copies of known-good sites before they get ruined.
Learn how to tell fact from fiction and reality-test everything you see. Phone a friend
Honestly I’m buying up as many art reference books as I can get my hands on. Find a lot of them in second hand stores. Lots based on video games, movies or technical references like planes or ships.
Fuck off with that slop. I’m getting these books specifically for real references and not stolen regurgitated amalgamations.
This is a specifically anti ai community. Go peddle your slop elsewhere.
You can probably manipulate search results by including (site:example.com OR site:example 2.com) or excluding (-example.com -example2.com) websites.
