Search the pre-ChatGPT internet with the Slop Evader browser extension

ChatGPT's public debut on November 30, 2022, is widely seen by critics as the start of the AI-slop era online. Those yearning for a more human-written web can get some relief from a browser extension that filters Google searches to pre-ChatGPT results.

Slop Evader, published in late October by Australian artist, environmental engineer and tech critic Tega Brain, isn't a complicated bit of code, but it will make searching the pre-ChatGPT internet and some of its most popular sites a bit easier for you.

Available for Chrome and Firefox, the extension itself is simple - so simple you could duplicate its features using Google search operators, which Brain acknowledges by calling it "just a convenience" on the extension's GitHub page. For those of us who can’t remember all of Google’s search operators, Slop Evader does the work of adding Google’s date-range filter to your queries ...