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I notice a distinction made in the docs for image, video, and "web page" slop. Will there be a way to aggressively categorize filter web page slop separately from the other two? There's an uncomfortable amount of authors, even posted on this forum, who write insightful posts that (at least from what I can tell) aren't AI slop, but for some reason they decide to header it with a generated image. While I find that distateful, I would only want to filter that if the content of the post text itself was slop too. Will the distinction in the docs allow for that?


Yes, images and text are scored separately. In the example you shared, the blog's image would be tagged as AI and downranked in image search. The blog post itself would still display normally in search results.


Yes we were aware of that when building it.

Image slop is directly detectable by a model, but web page slop is necessarily a multi-signal system (page format, who posted it, link structure, content,...)

So having AI images in a webpage is just one input signal for the page being slop (it's not even used yet in the classification for webpages).




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