I also noticed how it suddenly went from great to crap.
But the real reason I think is ironically AI. It used to be that you could easily crawl the web, but after the AI craze, images suddenly became valuable to crawl and every website gets bombarded by scrapers, and are adding more and more countermeasures to make it more difficult, so tineye’s own image scraper probably can’t compete with them and so can’t find any new images
oh cmon this is just a line drawing, surely no one asked an AI to create a line drawing right?
I actually have no idea, it just looks like an AI drawing to me. The fact that the glass is answering makes it a bit sus
yeah I agree there’s a lot of things off, like the glass speaking, it being way too big and the inconsistency in the way the people are drawn
maibe
in my experience, tineye doesn’t find any matches ever
It used to be good. Maybe it’s been enshitified. I couldn’t see the business model.
I also noticed how it suddenly went from great to crap.
But the real reason I think is ironically AI. It used to be that you could easily crawl the web, but after the AI craze, images suddenly became valuable to crawl and every website gets bombarded by scrapers, and are adding more and more countermeasures to make it more difficult, so tineye’s own image scraper probably can’t compete with them and so can’t find any new images