https://slopevader.com/
A search tool and browser extension for avoiding AI slop. Available for Chrome or Firefox.
The tool filters web searches so that results only include content published before November 30, 2022—the date of ChatGPT’s first public release. In the years following the emergence of large language models, the internet has seen a dramatic increase in automatically generated text, images, and video, much of it produced to optimize search rankings, drive clicks, and capture attention. As the internet fills with synthetic content, it becomes increasingly difficult to distinguish between media documenting the real world and media generated with machine learning. And with every sloppy post, the internet’s function as a system for accessing knowledge is quietly eroded.
Slop Evader addresses this via a simple mechanism that enables users to navigate back to a pre–generative AI web on sites like Pinterest, Quora, Reddit, Stack Exchange and YouTube. It uses the Google Search API* to only return results published prior to November 30, 2022. By filtering search results according to this temporal threshold, this tool proposes a small act of digital refusal—allowing users to temporarily step outside the expanding ecosystem of machine-generated media and rediscover traces of the human internet.
*Why use Google? Unfortunately platform based search tools rarely enable strict date based filtering. Google is one of the few engines that does.
Project repository: https://github.com/tegacodes/slop-evader
