"Called Slop Evader, it is a temporal firewall that modifies your Google search queries to exclude any results indexed after November 30, 2022. That is the day the ChatGPT asteroid hit the open web, upending culture and reality as we know it. Installing Slop Evader is easy: just add it to Chrome, toggle it on, and suddenly, the scroll of generative garbage vanishes. You are back in the "old" internet knowing that every article you read is not the product of simulated intelligence."
"It's an enticing idea, especially given that the latest estimation is that more than 50% of all new articles on the internet are now generated by AI. But the digitally Amish lifestyle has an obvious flaw: You aren't just evading slop; you are evading legitimate news, scientific breakthroughs, and culture itself. Which, on second thought, maybe is a good idea too."
Slop Evader is a Chrome extension that modifies Google search queries to exclude results indexed after November 30, 2022. The extension removes generative AI content from search results, recreating a pre-AI browsing experience but also blocking legitimate recent news, scientific breakthroughs, and cultural updates. Current estimates put more than 50% of new internet articles as AI-generated, and Europol predicts up to 90% of online content could be synthetic by 2026. Slop Evader functions as a symbolic respite from uncertainty rather than a technical solution. A durable defense requires proving authenticity at the source through provenance and authentication systems like C2PA.
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