Maybe something like a crowd sourced browser extension to block or warn against a blacklist of known slop sites?

It's getting ridiculous. The internet is ruined.

Search for something simple like how to change a tire and you get a 10 page article starting with "Firstly, what is a tire? Well..."

kinda in the mold of what you want: https://github.com/laylavish/uBlockOrigin-HUGE-AI-Blocklist and https://github.com/cpeterso/clickbait-blocklist/

I've started to add date limits to my web queries for things that don't require current information like recipes.

No I do not want to see your AI slop recipe for tomato sandwiches "author" from 2025, I'll go with a shitty web blog from 2021 thank you very much.

Make the author solve a CAPTCHA for each page load too.

Nothing on a screen can be trusted. If only they weren't so addictive...

It's honestly getting to the point where I almost wish someone with know how would train an AI to block AI slop from my internet

With the quality of Assumed Intelligence detectors, this is unlikely to ever come to pass, especially since humans are involved.

Crowdsourced block list is probably the best approach to this.

Then people could apply that blocklist however they prefer.

Realistically, if someone wanted to put a bunch of nice sounding garbage in front of you to farm clicks/ad impressions, does it really matter how it was made? Like, maybe they used AI to generate a bunch of good sounding text, but what if they just paid some company to have extremely cheap labor from some areas of the world write it instead?

You'd be viewing human written information, but it's still garbage.