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SlopStop is Kagi’s community-driven feature for reporting low-quality, mass‑generated AI content (“AI slop”) found in web, image and video search results.
Kagi Search already fights most SEO spam by downranking sites filled with ads and trackers. SlopStop adds a collaborative element: users can flag suspected AI slop, helping us identify domains and channels whose main purpose is to generate traffic with AI‑generated content.
You can report on a single page, image, or video, with each report individually reviewed. Multiple reports for the same domain or channel help speed up the review process.
Reviews are typically completed within a week and actions (flags and downranking) are applied once this is complete.
https://blog.kagi.com/slopstop
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Kagi is an AI company that made a search engine. All you are doing here is creating a dataset that will be used to make AI slop harder to identify. Take a look at Kagi News it provides “Slop as a Service”. You have to dig into the about section to learn that these news summaries are AI extruded.
Yeah my thought after reading the headline was “only good if they make that collected data public”, because if its not then this is just like what google is doing with captchas.
That’s a little disingenuous as they were founded in 2018. They’re a search engine company which currently implements AI.
It isn’t at all.
https://help.kagi.com/kagi/company/history.html#early-years
Huh, interesting, I was wrong then.
Yes, I’d also prefer it if news were summarized by humans, but Kagi probably just doesn’t have the capacity for that. Nevertheless, for topics that interest you, you can always access the direct sources to get information firsthand. To get a quick overview it’s good enough.