Spoiler: This post is neither sponsored by Kagi, nor am I affiliated with Kagi in any way.
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
Access to the database will be shared soon, you can express interest here if you’d like to receive updates.
I hope this is genuine, but I just realized this would be an excellent source for AI training data (grading which images are recognized as AI by how many humans)
+1 for kagi, I greatly enjoy their search - but it should be noted that they do heavily incorporate AI into their services.
Arguably more ethically than most, but still.
True. But it’s optional. I deactivated every AI feature and my browser experience is completely Ai-free.
I think, to remain competitive and attract a broad customer base today, searchengines are compelled to offer AI features. I’d rather use a provider that offers AI features as an option than one that aggressively pushes them on you.
The only AI feature of theirs that I’ve used is their Translate tool and I’ve been pretty satisfied with the results in comparison to others.
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.
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.
In the first couple of years (2018 - 2019) Kagi was focused on AI technology, driven by the notion that any future search engine will need to have a strong instant question-answering component.
Huh, interesting, I was wrong then.
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.
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.
I’d rather it was a browser extension.
