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[-] [email protected] 120 points 1 month ago

Before Ai Pinterest had stolen pictures without crediting or linking to the real artists while this shit got pushed to every image search. I hope this will be its final nail in the coffin.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

People posting pictures without crediting or linking to the artist? Who would've thought that could happen on my Internet

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Before Ai Pinterest had stolen pictures without crediting or linking to the real artists

Truly they were ahead of the times.

[-] [email protected] -2 points 1 month ago

Yeah that's what this guy is doing. Then he cries about "AI".

[-] [email protected] 75 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Not the best example

There was nothing useful on Pinterest before AI imagery either

[-] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

OOP apparently found use in the site, so that is what I went off of.

[-] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago

I’m trying to imagine how that is possible, Pinterest always showed up in google search results with something that looked promising but didn’t actually exist on their site. I can only imagine that it’s even worse now post-AI.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Me: Object Oriented Programming?!

[-] [email protected] -1 points 1 month ago

"Organic Original Poster" (to differentiate from AIs)

[-] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

When it very first started, it was a great visual bookmark service. I sew/crochet/craft, and it was nice being able to save a pic of the finished shirt and have it automatically linked to the pattern's website. Like most things, it went to shit after they tried to monetize it.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I have a couple of friends who use it like that. I hate when they send me links, it's like those people who used to spray you with perfume in department stores.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

I got screensavers and recipes I'd never make from them, how dare you

[-] [email protected] 54 points 1 month ago

I explicitly filter out pinterest from my search results because it's garbage

[-] [email protected] 29 points 1 month ago

It's weird that the OP has such high regard for Pinterest. I have always seen it as search-result polution and never really understood why it exists, other than as proof that we need to have search functions like "-site:____".

[-] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago

There would be times in the past I would search something and the only result of an image or list would be Pinterest.

I would just go without.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Again, I was going off of OOP who apparently found use in the site.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Never understood what pinterest was for, either. Kinda like sharing images or links?, but it's almost impossible to find the source link of whatever people posted when they did so

[-] [email protected] 51 points 1 month ago

Ah, Pinterest. The site I would go to to look at things, it would say "you can't look at things without an account" and I would say, "then I won't" ... and I would then leave.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

Oh, don’t forget the search result that showed a pinterest image that you click on to see a high res version, but the image is nowhere to be found after landing on the pinterest site.

Even if you had an account it’s still shit.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Everything needs a fucking account these days. The net used to be great, but it seems we're at an inflection point to see if it's just gonna keep getting worse. I'm not too hopeful unfortunately

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

duckduckgo's image search is the best way to peruse pinterest images

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Yeah I had enough of their crap to the point I got an addon that removes them from search/image results.

[-] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago

Somewhat unrelated, but I'm glad to see more and more posts using xcancel.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Xcancel is just nitter. I think writing 'nitter.net' is easier than trying to spell cancel, lol. But it's good to have many different servers.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

And these tweets are almost a year old. His Pinterest feed must just be a white screen by now.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

Honestly, though, Pinterest was never a good ref tool.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Yes it was, we need to stop doing this where AI ruins something and we go "well it was never good" yes it was, that's why it got popular. AI is running the Internet

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

No. No it wasn't. Pinterest bombards you with irrelevant images, tries to get you to click on as many things as necessary without making clear what is an ad or not, then forces you to create an account on their platform to view anything.

That's not even going into how it hosted artwork from other artists and never gave sources or credit, or had advertisements that used stolen art.

Pinterest was absolute trash. Has always been absolute trash. And its AI implementation doesn't particularly change how trash it is.

When I used to use Google, and then later with DuckDuck Go, I used plugins which allowed me to filter out certain domains from search results, specifically to get rid of all the Pinterest results.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Amazing to see that some people still have not banned Pinterest from their search results.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

How is the AI/Non AI decided? It's very low resolution, but there dwarf on the right seems very detailed to be AI (at least pure AI).

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