DuckDuckGo image search for morse code chart, showing the erroneous chart as the top result.

See how many errors you can spot!

    • [deleted]@piefed.worldEnglish
      2·
      3 hours ago

      It is a symptom of how slop is overwhelming actual results, because regular sites that use AI to ‘save costs’ will just perpetuate the slop and when 99% of results are slop then it doesn’t matter what your settings are.

    • Nindelofocho@lemmy.worldEnglish
      22·
      13 hours ago

      This would still show up even if it was set to hide though right? This is an image result on a third party site. Imo its worse because theres no disclosure that its even AI

      • DABDA@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        10·
        9 hours ago

        DDG’s description of that feature:

        If you don’t want AI-generated images to show up in DuckDuckGo image search results, you can filter them out a few different ways:

        1. Anytime you’re viewing image search results in the Images tab on DuckDuckGo search, you can click the AI images filter and select Hide to reload results without AI-generated content.
        2. Alternatively, open Search Settings > General or Search Settings > AI Features and turn on Hide AI-Generated Images.
        3. Finally, if you want a search experience without AI-generated images, without Search Assist answers, and without Duck.ai prompts and entry points, start your searches on noai.duckduckgo.com instead of duckduckgo.com.

        How does DuckDuckGo filter out AI-generated images in search results?

        We rely on publicly available lists to filter out AI-generated content, like those provided by uBlockOrigin & uBlacklist Huge AI Blocklist, an open-source blocklist, manually curated by project contributors.

        These lists are not exhaustive, but our aim with the “AI images” filter is to filter out as much AI-generated content as possible.

        I run Firefox on Linux Mint with uBlockOrigin and uMatrix addons (with modified settings) so I can’t speak to the universality of my results, but it seems like DDG is pretty loose with how it categorizes and displays info.

        1. With AI images set to hide on first search for “morse code chart” I get the following: Hide

        2. Toggling the AI image setting to show instantly changes the results and displays these: Show (instant)

        3. Without additional changes, just clicking the search button again slightly changes the results: show (re-search)

        4. Toggling the AI image setting back to hide again instantly changes the results to: Hide (instant)

        5. Re-running the search as is returns the same results as #1.

        I’ve also previously had horrible luck getting the date filters to work when trying to use a bookmarklet style shortcut to add the dates as parameters in the address bar (they’re just completely ignored when a search is run that way for me), and as of ~2 days ago the date range just didn’t seem to work at all. I was trying to find a human authored post/article about the difference between opossums and possums and using a date range of 1950–2015 was still ONLY returning results post-2023 and they were all wordy slop.

      • DABDA@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        5·
        9 hours ago

        I don’t know offhand but I strongly suspect everything related to AI is defaulted to on/show.

        • Camille_Jamal@lemmy.zipEnglish
          1·
          1 hour ago

          In my experience (currently my only mobile browser) it will remember last setting, prefer no ai if unknown userbase preference and if there’s a known userbase preference it will do either yours or userbase depending on settings and version. Search assist (ai search summary) is on by default but will not force a generated answer. All of these settings have been easy and intuitive for me to toggle, though it is chromium based. I have seen better filtering and results on some searches on ddg than google, but that bar is so low bing can sometimes clear it.

  • Cevilia (they/she/…)@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    15·
    13 hours ago

    Of course the Americans have their own Morse code. Why wouldn’t the Americans have their own Morse code? (edit: instead of the International Morse Code that everyone else uses)

  • kinsnik@lemmy.worldEnglish
    12·
    16 hours ago

    Great, i always struggled playing YYZ, but the new version of “… … …” makes it so much more manageable

    • entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
      2·
      15 hours ago

      The new version would be: “… … … … .”

      Which is a pretty tough rhythm if you treat each space as an eighth note rest and each dot as an eighth note

  • TuEstUnePommeDeTerre@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    9·
    15 hours ago

    Looks like the only error is 7 missing a couple of dashes. Otherwise, the chart lines up with Wikipedia.

    Edit: I guess there’s also a typesetting error with the length L and T. This was either manually typeset or is slop given the random size changes of the dots.

    • Dozzi92@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      16 hours ago

      I learned the Vail/Morse thing from a Jon Bois video. His videos have taught me a lot of things, some useful, most trivial, but all stuff.

    • JoshuaFalken@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      17 hours ago

      I don’t see an ad in there but even so, why quibble on a dead man’s behalf that the communication method is called Vail’s cipher and not Morse code. It’s like taking up arms whenever a guillotine is mentioned.

        • JoshuaFalken@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          10 hours ago

          Well perhaps you’re right, though if I search for green apples and the first few results are from applecatelogue, I might not think that an ad so much as a search result.

          I see your point though, multiple of the same domain can seem questionable.