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Showerthoughts

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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.

Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:

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Ok hear me out, you have an extension on your browser, if you see some ai slop website, you can flag it. Then, like sponsorblock it doesn't appear and gets just zapped. It could also work on youtube and other major websites, you flag some post, then it doesn't appear for other users.

In the end you have a database of ai slop content to avoid (or attack, idk I'm just some guy on the shitter (sry that's not a shower 😬😢)

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[–] bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 19 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Yes please I want to report these stupid ass ai websites masquerading as real with fake author names. Makes me so angry. I just only search things before 2018 now !

[–] LordMayor@piefed.social 4 points 2 days ago

The worst part is that alternative search engines like DuckDuckGo and Ecosia seem to return those sites more than Google.

Google has become shit, no doubt. But, it’s still better than the alternatives. I think we need something like Yahoo!, again, but curated Wikipedia style.

[–] hexagonwin@lemmy.blahaj.zone 24 points 3 days ago (1 children)

there's a ublock origin/ublacklist filter that kinda does this

[–] cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 3 days ago

Until the database gets poisoned by pro AI groups. Like how some ad blockers block content because shitty websites flag content as ads.

[–] RotatingParts@lemmy.ml 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Turn AI against the system. I want a browser plugin that uses AI to learn to identify adds and even AI slop and block that stuff for me.

[–] BrainBow65@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

Yes! AI should be working for the user. I wish there were more projects doing this.

[–] 30p87@feddit.org 6 points 3 days ago

sry that's not a shower

On the venn diagram, there's a very small overlap.