Dear Fediverse, thank you for being a safe haven from AI slop.

[talon123@mastodon.social]

@_elena https://www.minds.com/Talon123/ try minds.. it is a bit more weird than here. it also has more memes, and convesation.

[jerkedgherkins@mastodon.social]

you’re preaching to the pickle choir! AI-generated nonsense is like a soggy cucumber – just sad. give me the real stuff or let me rot in peace, fr!

[lefteristrip23@mastodon.social]

@_elena fyi, you can disable ai on Pinterest

[lasttry@mastodon.social]

@_elena https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVM5-_fusjs

[_elena@mastodon.social]

Follow-up to this morning's post about #AIslop.

@bookstardust @lefteristrip23 suggested I could turn off AI-gen image recommendations on #Pinterest. I did - thank you!

No more LEGO AI slop... but now my feed is 100% illustrations with the same style... and I don't know what to trust anymore.

I found an illustration of NYC really odd (Statue of Liberty in the middle of the city?!?), zoomed in and boom: complete gibberish on a store sign (aka surest sign of AI slop).

No more Pinterest for me 😭

[schellx@mastodon.social]

@_elena is Lemmy and peertube good? I was told that peertube is not a good replacement for YouTube. For example, I like to watch channels like EWU and investigation videos and those are not available in peertube. Is the content very low on it?

[tarxz@mastodon.social]

@_elena there's plenty of AI in lemmy if you are too lazy to block all of them by hand.

[saliaku@mastodon.social]

@_elena fedi also has a lot of AI slop... It's sad to see them when mainstream accounts post it and see it on trending page

[the_wub@mastodon.social]

@_elena @ozzelot
I would suggest trying FreeTube and/or Invidious to watch YT videos. FreeTube can be configured in many ways and includes "Distraction Free" settings.

Both break every now and again as YT changes stuff, sometimes for a couple of weeks.

In such situations you can find videos with FreeTube and use tools like yt-dlp to grab videos.

But generally FreeTube works fine.

There are versions of FreeTube for the main desktop platforms as well as Android.

[sylvia@social.lol]

@_elena @bookstardust @lefteristrip23 I left Pinterest for the same reason. Even with turning off AI, it was just disgusting. I used it to find patterns, home inspiration etc, but everything is slop now. Disgusting.

[lefteristrip23@mastodon.social]

@_elena @bookstardust yeah, tbh I wouldn't mind a fediverse Pinterest

[erminiahaller@mastodon.social]

@_elena @bookstardust @lefteristrip23 what’s even the point of posting this kind of no-sense

[_elena@mastodon.social]

@erminiahaller I have no idea TBH. It’s not like you can monetize pin views. I didn’t dare check what it was linking to…

@bookstardust @lefteristrip23

[_elena@mastodon.social]

@lefteristrip23 @bookstardust a Fediverse Pinterest and also LinkedIn would be amazing

[_elena@mastodon.social]

@sylvia I used to find so much creative inspiration, too. It’s terrible what happened to it 😭

[lefteristrip23@mastodon.social]

@_elena @bookstardust LinkedIn absolutely. Unfortunately, this one REALLY, needs people to join