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AI is not polluting, the users are… AI does only what is asked.
this post was submitted on 28 Apr 2025
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A big issue with AI is precisely how just a few people can inundate the rest of us with their mass-produced slurry of AI content.
True but pinterest needs to ban AI
Wow who'd have thought there were no real photos of ogres? I'm shocked.
but actual artwork does exist? so when you want art references for style references, why should you be forced to see a bunch of AI?
I explicitly filter out pinterest from my search results because it's garbage
It's weird that the OP has such high regard for Pinterest. I have always seen it as search-result polution and never really understood why it exists, other than as proof that we need to have search functions like "-site:____".
There would be times in the past I would search something and the only result of an image or list would be Pinterest.
I would just go without.
Again, I was going off of OOP who apparently found use in the site.
And these tweets are almost a year old. His Pinterest feed must just be a white screen by now.
Before Ai Pinterest had stolen pictures without crediting or linking to the real artists while this shit got pushed to every image search. I hope this will be its final nail in the coffin.
Yeah that's what this guy is doing. Then he cries about "AI".
People posting pictures without crediting or linking to the artist? Who would've thought that could happen on my Internet
Not the best example
There was nothing useful on Pinterest before AI imagery either
When it very first started, it was a great visual bookmark service. I sew/crochet/craft, and it was nice being able to save a pic of the finished shirt and have it automatically linked to the pattern's website. Like most things, it went to shit after they tried to monetize it.
I have a couple of friends who use it like that. I hate when they send me links, it's like those people who used to spray you with perfume in department stores.
OOP apparently found use in the site, so that is what I went off of.
I’m trying to imagine how that is possible, Pinterest always showed up in google search results with something that looked promising but didn’t actually exist on their site. I can only imagine that it’s even worse now post-AI.
Me: Object Oriented Programming?!
"Organic Original Poster" (to differentiate from AIs)
I got screensavers and recipes I'd never make from them, how dare you
Somewhat unrelated, but I'm glad to see more and more posts using xcancel.
Xcancel is just nitter. I think writing 'nitter.net' is easier than trying to spell cancel, lol. But it's good to have many different servers.
How is it possible to filter out those images? The ads are easy, but LLM content is harder when it comes to automatic removal.
Pinterest would need to hire people to better moderate their content.
Ostensibly the onus would be on the user not to post them in the first place (or at least tag them), but if the users are spammers then… shrug.
Maybe we should have small, networked clusters of minimal-profit communities interested in moderating themselves? Nah, the internet was never like that…
That would be nice, but who's going to pay for it? Because free hosting is pretty rare, nowadays.
That would be nice, but who’s going to pay for it? Because free hosting is pretty rare, nowadays.
The Fediverse is working OK. So are some image hosts like catbox.
I dunno about at scale, but the old idea is that nothing really needs to be the scale of Facebook, Pintrest or whatever. Bulk storage is reasonable. A single modern server can do a lot.
Add "-pintarest" without quotes to your search.