the best I've managed is adding '-AI' to my searches but even that doesn't get all of them

hate

duckduckgo has been pretty good at avoiding the AI options I feel

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there are chrome and firefox versions, and once you install the extension and blacklists, if you come across a new site that's AI image spam you can add it to your blacklist from the results page

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I would also try before:2022-2020 in my search, somehing like that

This is supposed to work, but I haven't tried it:

Add "udm=14" to the URL

How I Made Google’s “Web” View My Default Search
&udm=14 | the disenshittification Konami code

n i c e

thank u all

marking this for the chrome expansion

Dententa I'm iffy on using that as a tactic, since it's not fair to actual artists who happen to have posted stuff after 'AI' generated garbage started appearing.