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[–] [email protected] 51 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Someday soon my "adblocker" might be a personal AI that reads the spam-ridden website on a virtual display in memory, identifies the actual content while pretending to look at whatever ads the site demands, and then passes the information I'm actually looking for along to me. Good luck captchaing that.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

An AI feature actually useful for consumers? Corporate overloards say no thx, let’s instead fill the net with more AI-generated SEO bullshit

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago

Adblockers aren't made by "corporate overlords." This wouldn't be either.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

But right up the alley of local LLMs which are coming along gangbusters. For your consideration perplexica search engine.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

І ԁоո't раrtісulаrly thіոk thаt summаrіzеrs аrе а gооԁ gоаl, sіոсе аі summаrіеs саո оftеո bе wrоոg, mіsіոtеrрrеt іոfоrmаtіоո, оr оmіt іmроrtаոt іոfоrmаtіո thеy fаіl tо іԁеոtіfy аs іmроrtаոt.

I think if that starts to become common people should start using tools like this as well as the use of pre-baked PDF or image rendered text to thwart it on their content.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'm not talking about a summarizer, I'm talking about a classifier. It just needs to identify which parts of the page are advertising and which are not.

The point of such a tool is that it would read the web page in exactly the same way that a human would, so using trickery like pre-rendered images of text or funky unicode wouldn't really change anything. If a human can read it then so can the AI.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

That could be useful, if ads get to the point where removing their elements manually is no longer possible. I don't think that'll happen for a while though, as long as were still using HTML and Javascript which downloads and runs pages locally inside of our browsers.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

This is a really interesting little project, but there's no background info available. Making this be a plugin for that 'other' site that most of us left would be great. I still surf there once in a while but no longer comment due to their policy changes.