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BitOneZero ,
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we aren’t far away from easily-made interactive images / video where people will be able to create realistic selfies / video clips of their own self - in famous situations. Like Forest Gump being inserted into meeting historic President. The appeal is too strong and it will likely create tons of highly upvoted/shared social media images distorting the original.

People tend to treat detecting photoshop images as a game of one-upmanship, not as an importance of preserving a documented concept or situation for others to learn and understand.

liv ,

When will people realise that google has tailored algorithms and we are not all experiencing the same search results?

The first thing you’ll see if you search Google for “tank man” right now will not be the iconic picture of the unidentified Chinese man who stood in protest in front of a column of tanks leaving Tiananmen Square, but an entirely fake, AI-generated selfie of that historical event.

No, this is the first thing the author saw. Probably because they are a journalist writing about AI.

When I google tank man I don’t even get the AI image on the first page. The top result is from history.com. If I go to google image search it is the 7th result on the page. The top result is from wikipedia.

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    Nowyn ,

    I had it but really had to scroll to the bottom. It was also not Reddit but articles saying it was the first result. Which is kind of ironic.

    LinkOpensChest_wav ,
    @LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.one avatar

    When will people realise that google has tailored algorithms and we are not all experiencing the same search results?

    You’re right. This is the real problem with search engines like Google and one reason I use SearXNG instances and Mojeek instead. Where I live, the algorithm is more likely to net content that is biased toward right-wing conspiracy theories and problematic agencies because of that algorithm. Any search engine that does this is not a valid search engine, in my opinion.

    liv ,

    Yes I had a family member in a right wing conspiracy area. It was infuriating because his friends would tell him their nonsense and he would be skeptical and google it, only for google to seemingly support what they were saying.

    I couldn’t replicate his results at all and it would take a lot of searching to even find what he was talking about so I could debunk it for him.

    LinkOpensChest_wav ,
    @LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.one avatar

    I became hyper aware of it the first time I tried using Tik Tok, and I was served nothing but alt-right hate videos. Obviously, search engines aren’t usually quite so obvious, but for instance, people in my location are certainly more likely to net results connected to far-right ideas and agencies, because of the interests of people who live here.

    I don’t like that idea at all. Search engines should only respond to deliberate input from the user imo. I know that’s a big ask for people to acclimate to appending “in [location name]” if they expect location specific results, but the convenience of just saying “hey Google, restaurants near me” is not worth the consequences.

    Unfortunately, almost all search engines are complicit, including supposedly privacy friendly ones like Kagi, Qwant, and Startpage. I’m no longer recommending those to people. SearXNG and Mojeek are the only ones that don’t lean into the algorithmic and locational fuckery, but even that’s with a lot of tweaking the settings.

    It’s no great mystery why things like fascism are on the rise. And people will say I’m in the minority for caring about this, and … yeah, that’s the problem.

    HawlSera ,

    How do I get google to stop.showing me reddit pages?

    randint ,
    @randint@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz avatar

    Try adding -reddit in your search query.

    sculd ,

    Another “success” of CCP technology

    rastilin ,

    Google's becoming pretty terrible anyway, it only seems to return pages that are selling things. I've switched to Kagi at this point and it seems to work better, it's subscription only, but you know you're the one paying for it and that means that you're the end customer.

    thejevans ,

    I recently switched to kagi, too. Couldn’t be happier.

    Narrrz ,

    I wonder if the verb Google will stay with us when its origin is lost in history

    beejjorgensen ,
    @beejjorgensen@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

    I’m sure it’ll still be in the paper. 😉

    SoftestVoid ,

    New Kagi user here too, been very happy so far. Though it turns out I do a lot of searching and blew through the 300 searches in the $5 plan in like 2 weeks…

    beejjorgensen ,
    @beejjorgensen@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

    I just signed up with them, too. They were able to get me a link to the age of a small, nondescript lava flow near my town on the third hit. (5000 years old! A youngster!) All the other search engines gave me unrelated crap.

    I have a hard stop set up for when I hit $10, so I’ll switch tiers if it comes to that. 😅

    I don’t necessarily like paying for search, but I couldn’t take ad-driven search any longer. Big waste of time getting through the chaff.

    Byter , (edited )

    Make an effort to use bangs and I bet you’ll stay under the limit. Edit: bang searches don’t count towards the limit

    Knowing I wanted a result from a certain site but using the search engine to get there was a (bad) habit I brought over from Google.

    !imdb barbie

    !w mattel

    There’s even custom bangs, which is something DDG doesn’t give you: !libgen some book

    viq ,
    @viq@hackerspace.pl avatar

    @Byter
    DDG claims 13.5k existing bangs, and here's a form to add a new one https://duckduckgo.com/newbang
    @SoftestVoid

    Byter ,

    But they don’t allow bangs for sites that do illegal things like copyright infringement. Libgen was my example.

    viq ,
    @viq@hackerspace.pl avatar

    @Byter allowing illegal stuff and taking money doesn't bode that well for their longevity.

    Byter ,

    Custom bangs are private to the user. It’s not dissimilar to saving a bookmark in your browser, except your bookmarks are hosted by someone else.

    It doesn’t have to be about legality either. Maybe you like a service that is being protested by DDG for whatever reason.

    xilliah ,

    Why not duck?

    rastilin ,

    Because last time I checked they just used Bing anwyay, while Kagi runs their own indexer.

    xilliah ,

    Yes but why is that better. For censorship you mean?

    eltimablo ,

    It changes the question from "why not use duck" to "what does duck really add to bing"

    viq ,
    @viq@hackerspace.pl avatar

    @eltimablo @throws_lemy @xilliah @rastilin what it removes from bing: tracking, and personalized results. I believe it also adds the bang search, which few if any other places have.

    xilliah ,

    Well they have a sensible business model and can provide another stream of income for Bing from users it otherwise wouldn’t reach.

    rastilin ,

    It's better because Bing may still have selling ads as a priority when building the indexer. If you're not the one paying, you're the product.

    xilliah ,

    That’s a good point.

    AnalogyAddict ,

    You do know it’s not an either- or situation, right? You can be both.

    snowbell ,
    @snowbell@beehaw.org avatar

    Duck duck go is practically broken. I switched to startpage which worked alright until I got a VPN, then I just started using bing with better results. So it is somehow worse than bing even. Duck ignores my quotes and minuses and such things.

    loops ,

    https://beehaw.org/pictrs/image/5d8bcaf0-7cb7-43f2-8173-7ea138f925d2.webp

    Upping the original as a matter of course.

    Sauce: the.me/making-the-iconic-1989-tank-man-photo/

    Virkkunen ,
    @Virkkunen@kbin.social avatar

    Watch out mate, you're going to bring out the deniers

    gullible ,

    Look, all I’m saying is that I have yet to see any definitive proof that China really exists. A flag with 5 stars and 2 colors? Who do they expect to fool with that?

    Narrrz ,

    I've seen lots of people who say they're from China, but they all look just like Japanese people, can I really just take them at their word?

    Deceptichum ,
    @Deceptichum@kbin.social avatar

    Also the borders are so inconsistent. One minute it’s 9 dashes, next they’re claiming it’s 10 dashes. Can’t even keep a story straight.

    TheGreenGolem ,

    And a giant ass wall all around it? Ppfsht, yeah, right. Just believe in fairy tales if you want to.

    reflex , (edited )
    @reflex@kbin.social avatar

    I saw a picture of China's purported leader but it was just Winnie the Pooh.
    You can't fool me with cartoons.

    loops ,

    https://beehaw.org/pictrs/image/26a3cd0b-29f9-456c-8221-8d273a853b8c.webp

    SubArcticTundra ,
    @SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml avatar

    Nice try, @gullible

    swnt ,
    @swnt@feddit.de avatar

    Wow. I had never seen the full image. thanks!

    tetraodon ,

    Tanks

    loops ,

    That moment when you go shopping, but have to stop a column of tanks on the way home.

    Nia , (edited )

    There’s actually a video of it too that a lot of people haven’t seen (Video visuals are SFW, though there is gunfire sounds in the distance in the second half). The image alone misses a lot of what the guy did, he even climbed on top of the tank.

    Youtube link: youtu.be/YeFzeNAHEhU?si=bdKE9yo6HukO3Fhc

    Private frontend link: piped.syncpundit.io/watch?v=YeFzeNAHEhU

    swnt ,
    @swnt@feddit.de avatar

    thanks, I’ve actually known the video - but not the larger picture.

    nevertheless, one of the most impressive and extraordinary and important clips in humanity

    xavier666 ,

    Did you upload the image? I don’t see anything

    loops ,

    I did, can you see the link? The picture was originally from there.

    otter ,

    Maybe google images needs a toggle for AI generated content. It won’t be perfect, but it should filter out a chunk of it just by excluding pages that have it

    Toribor ,
    @Toribor@corndog.social avatar

    Accurately detecting an AI generated image may be more computationally expensive than generating it in the first place.

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