12/07/2025
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New browser tool lets users freeze the internet in 2022.
Say “goodbye” to AI slop.
In response to the rising tide of AI-generated content online, a new browser extension called Slop Evader is offering users a digital escape hatch—by freezing the internet in 2022.
Designed by artist and researcher Tega Brain, the tool filters Google search results to exclude anything published after November 30, 2022—the day ChatGPT was released.
Brain’s goal is to provide a cleaner, more “human” browsing experience, free from AI-written articles, synthetic images, and manipulated media that have become pervasive in the digital landscape.
While tools like Slop Evader and Kagi Search’s SlopStop signal growing resistance to “AI slop,” Brain is clear that these extensions are not permanent fixes. Rather, they're meant to spark deeper reflection and collective action around how we engage with digital information. Users of Slop Evader can currently filter content across seven platforms, but with the trade-off of losing access to anything current. For Brain, that trade-off is intentional—a way to challenge passive acceptance of synthetic media and push back, however simply, against an increasingly artificial internet.
Source: Khollam, A. (2025). Slop Evader lets users freeze the internet in 2022 to escape AI-generated clutter. 404 Media.