Chrome has no setting that hides AI-generated images on the sites you visit. You can still cut down on how many you see, but no single switch does it all. Each option below covers a different part of the web, so the most effective approach is to combine a few.
Chrome's settings have a page called AI innovations with switches for Chrome's own AI features, such as Gemini in Chrome and AI Mode in the address bar. Google renames and moves these often, so the labels on your computer may differ slightly.
Those switches control what Chrome's AI does for you. They don't filter what websites show you, so an AI image on a web page looks the same however they're set.
Image search is where a lot of people notice AI images first, and it's the easiest place to reduce them. Google Search doesn't offer a way to hide AI-generated images, but you have two other options.
Use DuckDuckGo's filter. DuckDuckGo added an option in 2025 to hide AI-generated images:
You can also turn on Hide AI-Generated Images in DuckDuckGo's search settings, or bookmark noai.duckduckgo.com, which has the filter on by default and also turns off AI summaries. To search with DuckDuckGo from Chrome's address bar, go to Settings → Search engine and choose it there.
DuckDuckGo says the filter won't catch everything. It relies on manually curated blocklists of sites known for AI images, so a new AI image on an ordinary site can still get through.
Add a blocklist to Chrome. The lists behind that kind of filter are available to you as well. The free uBlacklist extension, from the Chrome Web Store, can subscribe to community lists such as the Huge AI Blocklist and remove known AI image sites from your search results, including Google's. It takes a few minutes to set up, and you can keep using the search engine you already have. The limit is the same as DuckDuckGo's: a list can only block the sites someone has added to it.
Older guides often suggest uBlock Origin for this. The full version no longer runs in current versions of Chrome, and its replacement, uBlock Origin Lite, has far fewer options for custom filter lists, so uBlacklist is the simpler choice for search results.
Some social platforms now have their own controls. They affect your feed on that platform, and they reduce AI content rather than removing it. Menu names change often, so check the platform's help pages if these steps don't match what you see.
Pinterest. Open the three-dot menu on a Pin and choose to see fewer AI Pins, if that option appears. In your settings, Refine your recommendations also lets you turn down generative AI interests by category. These controls cover eligible image Pins in supported categories such as art, beauty, fashion and home decor.
TikTok. In the app, go to Settings and privacy → Content preferences → Manage Topics and move the AI-generated content slider down. This affects your For You feed only, so AI videos can still appear in search and other places.
Where a platform has no control like these, muting or blocking accounts that post AI content is often the only option.
Each of the options above has a gap:
| Method | What it covers | What it misses |
|---|---|---|
| Chrome's AI settings | Chrome's own AI features | All website content |
| DuckDuckGo's filter | DuckDuckGo image search | Other search engines and the rest of the web |
| Blocklists | Known AI sites in search results | Sites not on the list, and AI images on ordinary sites |
| Platform controls | Parts of that platform's feed | Every other site |
None of them looks at each image on the page in front of you. That's the gap an extension built for this can fill.
AI Detector & Blocker is a free Chrome extension from Terran Foundry that checks the images, videos and text on each page you visit, then tags, blurs or hides what it flags. The checks run on your device. It's available for Firefox too.
To set it up for blocking:
With Hide selected, new images stay invisible until they've been checked, so you don't glimpse them first. A hidden image becomes a placeholder with Show and Why? buttons, which lets you reveal it or see the evidence. If a site doesn't work well with the extension, you can switch it off for that site in the popup.
It can only act on evidence it can find, such as Content Credentials, metadata, platform labels, captions and hashtags. Most social networks strip the hidden data from uploaded images, so an unlabeled AI image in a feed can slip through. Combining it with DuckDuckGo's filter and your platform settings will catch more than any one of them alone. If you'd like to check a particular image yourself, we've also written about how to tell if an image is AI-generated. Using Firefox? See how to hide AI images in Firefox.