This is often known as the Dead Internet Theory, or the Great Enshittification, caused by tonnes of low cost, low effort AI-created internet content.
Enter this new plugin, Slop Evader, which can take control of searches on Google, Reddit, Quora, Stack Exchange and Pinterest, and set responses to only show content from before November 30, 2022.
That means you lose out on the latest and greatest content, but it will make real sure you don’t get any AI slop in the process.
Its creator, the artist Tega Brain, tells 404 Media that he had been thinking of ways to create a «clean» web for some time, before arriving at this plugin:
— I’ve been thinking about ways to refuse it, and the simplest, dumbest way to do that is to only search before 2022.
The plugin works with Chrome and Firefox and you can download it here.
Read more: 404 Media had the scoop.