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disqard ◴[] No.41873959[source]
Dunno if vlad can see this, but

https://kagi.com/images?q=baby+peacock

...shows that infamous AI-generated peacock image multiple times on the first row of results.

Merely filtering out websites that tend to have lots of AI images does not prevent this failure case, since (for example):

https://birdfact.com/articles/baby-peacocks

has the fake image in there, as an example of "What does a baby peacock not look like?"

As Emily Bender has correctly pointed out, AI images are like an oil spill, and the cleanup (if such a thing is even feasible) will be challenging:

https://medium.com/@emilymenonbender/cleaning-up-a-baby-peac...

(edited to add that I'm a paying Kagi customer, and this failure case isn't a ding against my overall impression of what Kagi is, and I'll continue using it)

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1. freediver ◴[] No.41874390[source]
I see that a few AI images get through. That is OK - we still filter almost 30 AI images correctly (scroll to the bottom of search results to see them all). Also overall the results seem to be of higher quality than on other search engines.

For something that we just started working on a week ago and knowing this is just the first iteration of the feature - I think we are doing good overall. When there is will, there will be a way. And there is plenty of will on our end to stop this thing.