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DuckDuckGo Launches AI Image Filter to Hide Synthetic Visuals

Leveraging community blocklists with on-device filtering on a no-AI domain, this feature empowers users to remove synthetic images from search results.

DuckDuckGo AI image filter
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DuckDuckGo now lets you easily hide AI-generated images from your search results.
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Overview

  • DuckDuckGo has rolled out the filter as an “AI images” dropdown in image search to show or hide AI-generated visuals per query.
  • Enabling the “Hide AI-Generated Images” option in search settings applies the filter across all searches and the noai.duckduckgo.com domain activates it by default.
  • The filter relies on community-curated open-source blocklists from projects like uBlockOrigin and uBlacklist to flag synthetic images.
  • DuckDuckGo warns the filter is not foolproof but expects it to substantially reduce the number of AI-generated visuals in results.
  • This launch reflects DuckDuckGo’s “private, useful, and optional” AI philosophy and positions it against competitors with deeper AI integration.