DuckDuckGo now lets you hide AI-generated images from search results

Ever since AI services became popular, AI-generated images are practically unavoidable. DuckDuckGo has introduced a new feature that lets you hide the AI slop.

I didn't know about this feature and only stumbled upon it in the DuckDuckGo subreddit, which I happened to visit during a brief DuckDuckGo outage yesterday. Anyway, this AI-image blocker isn't a feature that is exclusive to the search engine. In fact, it is not an in-house solution at all, it relies on some filter lists such as the uBlockOrigin & uBlacklist Huge AI Blocklist, which you can find on GitHub. This is a manually curated list with 1000s of sites that contain AI generated imagery, it blocks the content from said websites.

You can use this filter list with uBlock Origin or the uBlackList add-on on Firefox, or any other browser that supports custom lists, like Brave Browser.  It's strange that I've only just come to know about this filter list, it might come in handy. Let's focus on DuckDuckGo's version here.

You can turn on the Hide AI-Generated Images option under https://duckduckgo.com/settings#aifeatures to filter the AI images from your search results. Btw, this is where you can disable Duck.ai, and Assist. I like this, you don't see Google or Bing giving you such controls.

Alternatively, you can visit http://noai.duckduckgo.com/, where the filter is enabled automatically. Interestingly, Duck AI and AI-assisted summaries are automatically disabled on this subdomain.

So, how does it work? Well, just search for something, and hopefully you shouldn't see any AI images in the results, just the good ones. If you want to view the AI-created imagery, click on the "AI Images" filter and select "Show". That's easy to use, and cool.

Note: The feature is not available in the DuckDuckGo browser yet, but I expect it may get added to it.

The problem is it doesn't work perfectly, but at least it reduces the AI-generated images to some extent.

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