Yeah, there are actually so many useful sites being blocked if you actually look at the list. Artbreeder is a great example.

Other examples of useful sites on the list: Huggingface, Civit.ai, DeviantArt, PromptHero, AIDungeon, Midjourney, Stability.ai's company website, and even Canva.

This just seems like a list for the "I don't want to see anything about AI ever" mindset, rather than, as you said, a list for directly fighting the misuse of AI.

To be fair, every AI community that allegedly attempts to exclude the latter ends up failing badly, so the former is really the only option.

I trust no claims of "actually useful AI" after being burned so many times.

I don't care whether its useful so much as if they are being annoying/misleading about it.

Take for example https://thisanimedoesnotexist.ai/ (chosen randomly from the list). Is it useful? No (or at least not to me. I suppose there probably exists some audience for this sort of thing). However its not pretending to be something its not, so its also not problematic. Nobody goes to that website thinking they are getting hand drawn anime only to be baited & switched.

most people want to never hear about AI again, it's everywhere in their face all of the time. Technologists and grifters are so dominant in the field and have zero ethics, people just don't want to deal with anything adjacent.

I'm not sure about "most" people (I think most people are just now learning that e.g. ChatGPT & Windows Copilot even exist), but those people who don't want to see anything about AI ever absolutely do exist and this list is probably great for them -- and it's also great for all those communities in which those same people would probably be distracting or otherwise cause problems in. Seems like a win-win list to have.

Meh, ChatGPT has had plenty of news coverage and people were talking a lot about it. Traditional news are filled with stories about AI this and AI that. Even stuff that isn't AI now includes AI somehow just to jump on the hype train.

I've got a normie friend who's already in full doomsday mode about AI and quoting stupid stuff people in the news say about "this wouldn't have been possible without AI" and we're all losing our jobs. People talked about AI a lot and the topic has become boring.

Plus what GP said about grifters and people with zero ethics. I wouldn't mind blending out most of the AI news except maybe actual research progress (and I don't mean better LLMs). It's just a buzzword that I've come to associate with low quality by now. Every stupid thing is with AI now, every Launch HN is something with AI. I'm personally bored by this

Ironically, the only way to catch that stuff at scale or in an automated fashion, is with AI.