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Not technically possible.
I use Stable Diffusion to generate images, and that will put information in EXIF tags in the image. However:
Your browser would have to download the images -- not thumbnails -- from the image search engine. In theory, I guess image search engines could provide a way to exclude ones that are explicitly flagging themselves in that way, but it'd be slow for your browser to do it.
There is no guarantee that all AI image generation software will do the same.
If anyone has modified it, made a derived image in Photoshop or GIMP or whatever, it won't have the EXIF data.
I doubt that there will ever be a reliable way to detect AI-generated images just from the image data. You could make something that works for some generators today, but they'll be heavily tied to the model and generator, and they'll break down as things change...and it's a fast-moving field.
In the long run, it might be a better shot to try to identify images that are not AI-generated than those that are. Like, have cameras cryptographically sign the images they take or something, because it can be useful to show that an image is actually a legit photograph. But that'll restrict what you're finding, exclude images that one might want to keep.
For a solution that will become increasingly-less-viable, one might be able to cobble together something with Tineye. It can look for similar images, and images that existed prior to widespread use of generative AI probably weren't generated with it. But over time, more and more of the images out there will have been done after the rise of generative AI.
Hm ...dang. I was hoping that there would at least be some sort of filter to remove pictures that are directly / openly tagged as AI art from searches, but I guess that would rely too much on the goodwill of the uploader to even use tags like these in the first place.
As soon as the extension exists, the websites will remove the tags, no site is going to willingly let themselves be filtered out of Google results, etc for something entirely in their control
AI art in its current form is an incredibly new phenomenon, maybe about a year or two old tops. If openAI have admitted there's no reliable way to detect chatGPT output, AI art is equally inscrutable to automated filtering.
tl;dr the world has changed again, we adapt
I mean, it wouldn't hurt to have it, but I doubt that it'd be too efficacious.
I've uploaded AI-generated images I've generated to two communities on lemmy that are focused on AI-generated imagery. My original image has the tags, but lemmy has built-in image hosting, which most people there use. It strips tags off the image (I assume to try to avoid people inadvertently doxxing themselves from photographs when they upload images taken where the camera embeds GPS location data in EXIF tags, which has been something of an issue in the past). Imgur also strips tags from uploaded images. I wouldn't be surprised if most image-hosting services probably do the same.
It's also a problem from a standpoint of AI training, because one of the more-significant issues that comes up is that you don't want to train AIs on AI-generated images, and people training AIs have no good way to filter them out either.