Pinterest Is Drowning in a Sea of AI Slop and Auto-Moderation
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- News link: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/26/02/20/2243230/pinterest-is-drowning-in-a-sea-of-ai-slop-and-auto-moderation
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> "I feel like, increasingly, it's impossible to talk to a single human [at Pinterest]," artist and Pinterest user Tiana Oreglia told 404 Media. "Along with being filled with AI images that have been completely ruining the platform, Pinterest has implemented terrible AI moderation that the community is up in arms about. It's banning people randomly and I keep getting takedown notices for pins." [...]
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> r/Pinterest is awash in users complaining about AI-related issues on the site. "Pinterest keeps automatically adding the 'AI modified' tag to my Pins... every time I appeal, Pinterest reviews it and removes the AI label. But then... the same thing happens again on new Pins and new artwork. So I'm stuck in this endless loop of appealing, label removed, new Pin gets tagged again," read a [3]post on r/Pinterest . The redditor told 404 Media that this has happened three times so far and it takes between 24 to 48 hours to sort out. "I actively promote my work as 100% hand-drawn and 'no AI,'" they said. "On Etsy, I clearly position my brand around original illustration. So when a Pinterest Pin is labeled 'Hand Drawn' but simultaneously marked as 'AI modified,' it creates confusion and undermines that positioning."
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> Artist Min Zakuga told 404 Media that they've seen a lot of their art on Pinterest get labeled as "AI modified" despite being older than image generation tech. "There is no way to take their auto-labeling off, other than going through a horribly long process where you have to prove it was not AI, which still may get rejected," she said. "Even artwork from 10-13 years ago will still be labeled by Pinterest as AI, with them knowing full well something from 10 years ago could not possibly be AI." Other users are tired of seeing a constant flood of AI-generated art in their feeds. "I can't even scroll through 100 pins without 95 out of them being some AI slop or theft, let alone very talented artists tend to be sucked down and are being unrecognized by the sheer amount of it," said another post. "I don't want to triple check my sources every single time I look at a pin, but I refuse to use any of that soulless garbage. However, Pinterest has been infested. Made obsolete."
[1] https://www.404media.co/pinterest-is-drowning-in-a-sea-of-ai-slop-and-auto-moderation/
[2] https://slashdot.org/story/26/01/27/1457232/pinterest-cuts-up-to-15-jobs-to-redirect-resources-to-ai
[3] https://www.reddit.com/r/Pinterest/comments/1r11imf/pinterest_keeps_tagging_my_handdrawn_art_as_ai/?ref=404media.co
Pinterest is a parasite. (Score:4, Insightful)
Like the AI companies, Pinterest scooped up vast amount of images without artist's consent and then slopped them on their site, usually at some lower resolution than the artist originally posted, and corrupted by having switched image formats too many times. You had to sign up to their sight to properly view the images they harvested, so they held these stolen images hostage, in a sense. They did have a decent algorithm for finding similar images though, although that's probably been replaced by AI now.
Anyway, their doom should have come a long time ago. Can't wait for Instagram to die next.
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Next step is that some scammer gobbles up that domain trying to sell crypto or other more shady stuff.
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The cool kids have been moving back to private forums and mailing lists for some time. AI slop just accelerates the change.
Global portals should be made smaller? (Score:1)
Flooding with AI art is a problem everywhere on without prior moderation image portals . Maybe regional pre-moderated image portals would be better.
Authenticity as a Service (Score:3)
Going forward, authenticity is going to be a rare and therefore valuable commodity.
The platform that figures out how to maintain a user base of real, sincere, honest human beings will have an advantage over its competitors that are nothing more than a raging sea of ads, trolls, bots, and AI slop with the occasional drowning human mixed in but on his way to the exit.
I'm not sure what the formula is (if I knew I'd probably be rich), but maybe something combining credit checks, public/private key identity authentication, and a reputation system that people care about maintaining?
Karma for search result Pinterest slop. (Score:2)
For a while google search results were drowning in Pinterest slop, er I mean 'results'.
Obvious root cause is obvious... (Score:2)
Pinterest must have trained their AI image detector on posts and images saying "this looks shopped, I can tell from some of the pixels and from seeing quite a few shops in my time".
So? (Score:4, Insightful)
Pinterest is ass
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I wish I had some mod points.
Fun fact: If you add -pinterest to the end of Google searches, you don't get any links to them.