All Kagi Search users can now flag low-quality AI content (“AI slop”) in web, image, and video search results.
Ah, perfect. I already downrank slopsites.
Nice! I do the same, and it’s nice to see that they’ll crowd source the communities combined efforts
On the one hand, that’s nice for improved Kagi results. On the other hand, I dislike how community efforts will end up being owned by a single company.
They addressed it under:
Access to the database will be shared soon, you can express interest here if you’d like to receive updates.
I’m not sure what the criteria will be for receiving access to the database.
Nobody is sure yet, but it doesn’t matter because access is not even close to the same thing as ownership. We need to stop letting people own our crowdsourced data. They are not “adding value”, they are parasitically feeding on us.
Interesting, thank you. From the text here,
"As we collectively identify and validate slop across the web, Kagi’s SlopStop initiative will help transform those insights into a comprehensive, structured dataset of AI slop – an invaluable resource for training AI models.
Access to the database will be shared soon. Use this form to express your interest if you’d like to receive updates.
especially the part “an invaluable resource for training AI models”, and the absence of any community-focused language, and the fact that Kagi iirc is still operating at losses and are looking for ways to become profitable, I fear it will be essentially commercial. But who knows, and even if it will be so, that still is not to say it’s all bad.
and the fact that Kagi iirc is still operating at losses and are looking for ways to become profitable
Kagi is already profitable. A good sign, imo.
See: https://blog.kagi.com/what-is-next-for-kagi where they say “We are also thrilled to report that we have achieved profitability” on May 30 of last year.
As for the AI models, I see this as only really being a good thing. Either existing AI models (i.e. LLMs) get trained to produce less sloppy content, and thus less content generated by them is actually inaccurate and damaging to the web’s integrity as a source in the first place, or it’s used to train AI models made to detect slop, like they’ve said they want to do, in which case it becomes easier to block out low-quality slop without even needing human reports for the majority of site blocks.
@Novocirab
Small side note:
Kagi isn’t at a loss, they’re profitable. They said so earlier this year
@lazycouchpotato
