I want a browser add-on (firefox or chromium) that scans the content of a webpage, and determines the liklihood that it was generated by a bot. Some of these "answer" pages with "info" are so, so bad. They don't present the information in a logical structure, or build on what's been written previously... it's like a series of chatGPT2 outputs strung together with 70mb of javascript. If I could be warned as the page loads (or better yet, before clicking the link), it would save my time, and everyone's electrical resources. Is there anything like that out there right now?

7 months ago · 👍 chirale, eph, locustsandhoney

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@locustsandhoney - right?! half the time these articles repeat themselves, by asking/answering the same questions over and over again, with slightly different phrasing. ugh. · 4 months ago

@lucas - fair point. the lack of *meaning* inherent in the ai-gen dreck is pushing me towards overengineered solutions. · 4 months ago

no suggestions, sorry, but I wanna commiserate on the frustration with AI bots writing articles. I was just reading an article about mushroom IDing and the thing was, at a minimum written with a large chunk of ai goo content. I'm paraphrasing but one of the sentences was like "some mushrooms are parasitic to humans so they shouldn't be eaten" and I just can't bring myself to insult a person by assuming they are that dumb. This isn't like a silly thing either, a bad mushroom ID could get someone killed. It's gross and I hate it. · 7 months ago

Don't worry, it's made by a bot. I don't need to see it to know it. · 7 months ago

I don't love Javascript but even 70 megabytes of it will waste less electricity than running an inference model to do what you want · 7 months ago