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This list kind of seems to miss the mark... I want to block sites that use bad ChatGPT content to do SEO drowning out real content or otherwise uses AI in an abusive way. I wouldn't want to block sites that just talk about AI, or are AI demos (where nobody is being tricked or spammed).
Yeah, there are actually so many useful sites being blocked if you actually look at the list. Artbreeder is a great example.

Other examples of useful sites on the list: Huggingface, Civit.ai, DeviantArt, PromptHero, AIDungeon, Midjourney, Stability.ai's company website, and even Canva.

This just seems like a list for the "I don't want to see anything about AI ever" mindset, rather than, as you said, a list for directly fighting the misuse of AI.

To be fair, every AI community that allegedly attempts to exclude the latter ends up failing badly, so the former is really the only option.

I trust no claims of "actually useful AI" after being burned so many times.

I don't care whether its useful so much as if they are being annoying/misleading about it.

Take for example https://thisanimedoesnotexist.ai/ (chosen randomly from the list). Is it useful? No (or at least not to me. I suppose there probably exists some audience for this sort of thing). However its not pretending to be something its not, so its also not problematic. Nobody goes to that website thinking they are getting hand drawn anime only to be baited & switched.

most people want to never hear about AI again, it's everywhere in their face all of the time. Technologists and grifters are so dominant in the field and have zero ethics, people just don't want to deal with anything adjacent.
I'm not sure about "most" people (I think most people are just now learning that e.g. ChatGPT & Windows Copilot even exist), but those people who don't want to see anything about AI ever absolutely do exist and this list is probably great for them -- and it's also great for all those communities in which those same people would probably be distracting or otherwise cause problems in. Seems like a win-win list to have.
Ironically, the only way to catch that stuff at scale or in an automated fashion, is with AI.
Yeah, way too broad and uninformed. Seems to indiscriminately block anything `.ai` and on a quick read I immediately noticed deeplearning.ai (Andrew Ng's super famous course) is on the list.
Will some of these rules have false-positives that HNers won't want hidden from them in search results?

    google.com,duckduckgo.com,bing.com##div>a:has-text(/Stable Diffusion/i):upward(div):style(opacity:0!important)
    google.com,duckduckgo.com,bing.com##div>a:has-text(/AI Art/i):upward(div):style(opacity:0!important)
    google.com,duckduckgo.com,bing.com##div>a:has-text(/Generative AI/i):upward(div):style(opacity:0!important)
    google.com,duckduckgo.com,bing.com##div>a:has-text(/Ai/):upward(div):style(opacity:0!important)
    google.com,duckduckgo.com,bing.com##div>a:has-text(/AI/):upward(div):style(opacity:0!important)
    google.com,duckduckgo.com,bing.com##div>a:has-text(/Lora Model/i):upward(div):style(opacity:0!important)
    google.com,duckduckgo.com,bing.com##div>a:has-text(/diffusion/i):upward(div):style(opacity:0!important)
    google.com,duckduckgo.com,bing.com##div>a:has-text(/midjourney/i):upward(div):style(opacity:0!important)
    google.com,duckduckgo.com,bing.com##div>a:has-text(/niji/i):upward(div):style(opacity:0!important)
    google.com,duckduckgo.com,bing.com##div>a:has-text(/SDXL/i):upward(div):style(opacity:0!important)
    google.com,duckduckgo.com,bing.com##div>a:has-text(/ai generated/i):upward(div):style(opacity:0!important)
    google.com,duckduckgo.com,bing.com##div>a:has-text(/text image synthesis/i):upward(div):style(opacity:0!important)
    google.com,duckduckgo.com,bing.com##div>a:has-text(/aiart/i):upward(div):style(opacity:0!important)
    google.com,duckduckgo.com,bing.com##div>a:has-text(/AI illustration/i):upward(div):style(opacity:0!important)
Also, for true-positives for these rules, you might want not to hide them, since showing them can make a user aware of a site that needs a domain-based rule contributed to the ruleset.
I'm really, really struggling to put myself in the frame of mind of a person who feels they need uBlock to block /r/MachineLearning.
I can understand an artist that works for commission to draw a nice pidgeon searching for pidgeons on the net to use for reference. And then ends up sending a picture of something an AI thinks is a pidgeon but has horse eyes :-)
This for sure feels like a rage block list. Some guy just starts sweating every time he sees something AI related. BLOCKED!! fumes
Blocking any .ai domain seems completely off the mark. I thought this would be sites which have obviously AI generated content.
These are a bunch of neo-Luddites. AI is just a tool, and isn't much different than photoshop. They're afraid of applied mathematics.

From their blocklist source:

> Going NUCLEAR!!! (sites that have a lot of AI "art"/heavily support AI "art", but also have some authentic artwork;)

This is so ignorant of how these tools are actually being employed.

I'm actually fine with them removing themselves from the community. The fewer complaints we'll hear.

This, however (also from their blocklist source), is concerning:

> Gross nudify sites/deepfakes/porn (why isn't this illegal?!?!)

While I think generating porn of people is weird and potentially abusive, these people seeking to constrain thought and free speech are outright scary. Far scarier than any imagined breasts or penises.

Imagine how far down that slippery slope we'll slide if these people start to have their way.

Where were these people complaining about Beeple's Trump nudes? (I'm not trying to be political - I'm just stating that all of a sudden AI has people wanting to constrain free speech.)

The media narrative of "AI scary" is winning, and the politicians can and will use that to control us more.

I wish there was a list lihe this to block AI-generated spam that wasn't evangelism against anything AI-related. This blocks a bunch of discussion subreddits for no real reason.
At first I assumed this would finally blocked auto-generated garbage SEO spam results. But it seems to just list a bunch of AI art generators and other pretty useful content.

This seems more like a whitelist tbh.

Thanks for a list of interesting websites!
The sites are actually interesting
Why the snark?
Unless you think AI==bad, it is an interesting list. Lots of cool new toys to play with lately.
> google.com,duckduckgo.com,bing.com##div>a:has-text(/AI/):upward(div):style(opacity:0!important)

this has to be a joke right?

was excited for a second thinking this was a way to use ai in real time to block elements on a page based on user defined criteria
I was thinking the same thing when I read it.

That honestly sounds like a fantastic use of AI that doesn't hurt anyone.

Honest question - why something like that doesn't exist yet?
Because detecting AI content is not yet a solved problem. And it might never be, because such a thing would be wonderful to train against while making the next big AI.
The question directly above is about using AI as to enhance the content-blocking technology, not about using blocking technology to target AI content.
It probably exists, but not very well known, or is too expensive to use. For example, I wrote a SpamAssassin extension that adds some score to messages based on whether LLM thinks it is a spam email. It worsk very well, but it's a bit pricey when it comes to API costs. Maybe if I switch it from GPT3.5 to Claude Haiku it will make more sense.

I think we still need to see prices of LLM tokens go significantly down and performance increase before such web filtering solutions make sense. The Claude Haiku is a big step int he right direction, but the price is still high for this kind of high-volume usage.

There's no performant way to do so, even with browser-friendly model optimizations.
What if some AI generated content is...good?
.... its not.
I have a few blogs where I post useful content with human written articles, but the images are AI generated. They make the article better and add visual context without me having to pay graphic designers for stuff i'll never make money on.
Is this just against AI-generated content in general, or against sites that use AI-generated content and do not disclose that they are doing so?
It appears to just be anti-ai without any discernment whatsoever.
I'd say more "AI in general" (especially when you get to the nuclear list and it just walls off DeviantArt).
I see the utility of this as removing AI image results from google images. Many artists need to search for real life photo reference in order to improve their drawing or painting skill. If you've never heard "photo reference" before, you may assume this is like tracing, but that is not the case. What you do is "study" a reference then paint on your canvas separately. This is to improve your ability to render particular subjects and materials.

Although AI generated art is fairly adept at rendering materials at the small scale, they often have issues of large scale consistency (e.g. clothing wrinkles turning into seams in an unrealistic way) or being inaccurate (e.g. a certain type of wild cat having ear tufts when it shouldn't). These are real examples that I have seen.

Needing to sift through AI art in order to find true photographs for reference is frustrating. A blocklist helps with that.

What did people do before Google Image search and the Internet existed? Let's block everything because a few entitled hobbyists no longer have a world revolving around them.
I assume you'd go to the library and find photo catalogues, but this is inconvenient and before my time. Nobody is suggesting everyone use this blocklist, but it's here for the hobbyists who want to use it.
Has anyone had any luck getting ublock to work on Twitch? It's the only one undefeated for me right now.
TwitchAdSolutions "video-swap-new" works for me. I use the Userscript version (you install it using TamperMonkey).

https://github.com/pixeltris/TwitchAdSolutions

I use this extension for several years now, I don't know what is a twitch ad: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/alternate-player-fo...
Thanks
Not ublock, but I've been using the userscript here[1] with decent success. It uses the 360p feed while ads play.

[1] https://github.com/pixeltris/TwitchAdSolutions

You need to install Adguard Extra. I’m not sure why the extra technical blocking from that isn’t integrated into Adguard itself, but it works a treat on sites with aggressive adblock workarounds.
Thanks for a list of interesting websites!
I was inspecting the list and I thought it was kinda funny that there are a few absolutely random URLs to single AI images like: artstation.com/artwork/KOJ80W, it doesn't even have a like, I wonder why it was worth blocking that one in particular.
What about blocking chatgpt crawlers?! The other day I was asking ChatGPT about specific topic, it did answer me first with a generic answer, two out of the three citations were my personal website..
Interesting note: ChatGPT (openai.com) is _not_ blocked in this list, although /r/OpenAI and /r/ChatGPT are.
What did Anguilla ever do to you?

For all the trash-talk about .ai domains, it's disappointing that the authors fail to clarify that .ai doesn't necessarily stand for "artificial intelligence".