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.
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People posting pictures without crediting or linking to the artist? Who would've thought that could happen on my Internet
Before Ai Pinterest had stolen pictures without crediting or linking to the real artists
Truly they were ahead of the times.
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Not the best example
There was nothing useful on Pinterest before AI imagery either
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)
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.
I got screensavers and recipes I'd never make from them, how dare you
Ah, Pinterest. The site I would go to to look at things, it would say "you can't look at things without an account" and I would say, "then I won't" ... and I would then leave.
Oh, don’t forget the search result that showed a pinterest image that you click on to see a high res version, but the image is nowhere to be found after landing on the pinterest site.
Even if you had an account it’s still shit.
Everything needs a fucking account these days. The net used to be great, but it seems we're at an inflection point to see if it's just gonna keep getting worse. I'm not too hopeful unfortunately
duckduckgo's image search is the best way to peruse pinterest images
Yeah I had enough of their crap to the point I got an addon that removes them from search/image results.
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.
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.
Pinterest would need to hire people to better moderate their content.
Add "-pintarest" without quotes to your search.
Honestly, though, Pinterest was never a good ref tool.
Yes it was, we need to stop doing this where AI ruins something and we go "well it was never good" yes it was, that's why it got popular. AI is running the Internet
No. No it wasn't. Pinterest bombards you with irrelevant images, tries to get you to click on as many things as necessary without making clear what is an ad or not, then forces you to create an account on their platform to view anything.
That's not even going into how it hosted artwork from other artists and never gave sources or credit, or had advertisements that used stolen art.
Pinterest was absolute trash. Has always been absolute trash. And its AI implementation doesn't particularly change how trash it is.
When I used to use Google, and then later with DuckDuck Go, I used plugins which allowed me to filter out certain domains from search results, specifically to get rid of all the Pinterest results.
And these tweets are almost a year old. His Pinterest feed must just be a white screen by now.
Amazing to see that some people still have not banned Pinterest from their search results.
How is the AI/Non AI decided? It's very low resolution, but there dwarf on the right seems very detailed to be AI (at least pure AI).
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