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Top DuckDuckGo Image Result for "Morse code chart". It gets worse the longer I look at it.
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See how many errors you can spot!
Holy slop
this post was submitted on 22 Feb 2026
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Turn off ai mode and report ai images when you see them can help
found em all
Ah yes, the classic SOS … .. …
Click the ... then "Flag AI Image".
noai.duckduckgo.com
Yep, or if you have cookies enabled for duckduckgo.com just disable it in the settings.
pressing that button feels so good
Most important error is that you have AI results set to show instead of hide.
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.
When the AI bubble collapses there's gonna be a big market for companies that can extract data that hasn't been polluted by AI
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
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:
- 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.
- Alternatively, open Search Settings > General or Search Settings > AI Features and turn on Hide AI-Generated Images.
- 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.
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With AI images set to hide on first search for "morse code chart" I get the following: Hide
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Toggling the AI image setting to show instantly changes the results and displays these: Show (instant)
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Without additional changes, just clicking the search button again slightly changes the results: show (re-search)
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Toggling the AI image setting back to hide again instantly changes the results to: Hide (instant)
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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.
huh? these are image results on duckduckgo, why wouldn't the duckduckgo "hide ai images" option work?
How does duckduckgo flawlessly know what images are ai and not?
They rely on people reporting slop and denylist those sites.
They use an AI for that of course!
Unfortunately it still shows, even when hiding AI. And I'm searching over the noai DDG Version
What's the default?
I don't know offhand but I strongly suspect everything related to AI is defaulted to on/show.
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.
I'm sending out an S5S
Message in a bottle
just a castaway, an island lost at sea, oh
Just a lonely day, no one here but me, oh
Is this loss?
Pretty sure that’s a full on genocide if it is.
dawg
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)
Freedom Code!
...because inventor Samuel Morse was american? Or is this a whoosh moment... I feel like I'm missing something...
This is different from the International Morse Code which the rest of the world uses. I actually didn't even know about the American version up to now.
Americans don’t even use it any more; it came before there was an international version so it’s kind of silly to treat it like some weird ‘america different’ thing.
Russia still uses their version, especially in the navy.
It's not in modern use, it's an artifact from before there was an international standard.
Now do the imperial system.
0 is an extra long T
I thought it was an L
edit: I know i and 7 look similar, but 7 is right justified, so it's okay.
Great, i always struggled playing YYZ, but the new version of ".... .... ...." makes it so much more manageable
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
At least 6 makes sense
how do you send a capital dot?
By pressing harder.
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.
As a non-American, I should be unsurprised I'm more familiar with International Morse Code.