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Is there a search engine that blocks websites known to create low effort/AI generated articles? (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by simple@lemm.ee to c/technology@lemmy.world

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It's getting a bit ridiculous out here. I'm using DuckDuckGo but since it aggregates its search from other sources, it's also gotten bad recently. Is there a search out there that blocks domains that spam AI? Extra points if there's something like Ublock Origin that filters things based on a community-made list.

Edit: I'm aware of Kagi but it's pretty expensive and I'm not a fan that they, too, host their own AI tools.

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[–] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Have you given Kagi an actual shake? If you are not interested in saving preferences longer term, you can keep cycling through free accounts. Now more than ever, it is a breath of fresh air. If I want a quick AI answer without scrolling through some ad-ridden web page, I just put a "?" at the end of my query. If not, I have no AI garbage on my results.

[–] CubitOom@infosec.pub 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I love kagi but I don't think it actively filters out ai generated content.

I know when searching for pictures you can disable AI generated images.

I think the hard part for a search engine is that unless there is some kind of identifying mark on the content, how do they know that an ai didn't write a top 10 list of pastebin alternatives?

[–] Pringles@lemm.ee 1 points 1 day ago

It's not immune to it. If you are looking for something highly specific you will get slob for sure. To give an actual example, a buddy of mine told me that the walls of your house act like a sponge when you have the outer walls insulated but not the basement walls on the outside, at least against water. So I went looking on kagi for stuff to back that up (not that I didn't believe him, I just wanted to know more). A lot of the results were completely ai generated crap websites. There were good and somewhat relevant results, but in the end I gave up (also because we got confirmation that it's done on our house, so it became irrelevant).