As a fellow historical costume enjoyer I recommend buying a costume illustration encyclopedia. They are collections of public domain prints of different eras of western clothing (originally drawn in the 1800s for archival reasons or for theatre costume references)
The best way to get rid of AI results is to be ornery in your google search.
"what is a kite" -> ai rundown of kites
"what the fuck is a kite" -> actual human beings
For a while, I could get around that by filtering AI slop sites with a Firefox plugin, except it stopped working once DDG started to try to bank on the AI slop trend.
I used to gave have large book collection of images and concept art books, but i shifted to using the internet out of convince... I should rebuild my collection.
It's the solution to ""this is not a job, I could make this", but they couldn't actually and now some dipshits made genAI so these asshats can believe that they can make it"
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There’s a way to block tags like “stable_diffusion” and “ai_generated”
Well, he kinda lost it because it turns out a lot of people want to see scantily-clad AI slop in Napoleon’s colors.
"what is a kite" -> ai rundown of kites
"what the fuck is a kite" -> actual human beings
The only way I've found to get rid of this stuff is to search pre-2022.
But yes, those would be made no doubt
Of course, if you can get "prompt engineers" to speak her name, go for it!
But it's just theft...
it filters out the ai stuff
You can add websites to the blacklist and prevent them from showing up in Google image search
But yeah, there's a bunch of lists out there and the one I found is doing what it needs to
Bravo!
I GOT THE UP AND DOWN ONES MIXED UP
THIS REFERENCE IS CANCELLED