Comment by vunderba

Kind of sounds like the low‑background steel [1] problem all over again.

I have a rather badly written tool [2] I made about 5–6 years ago. If you connect it to your Google Custom Search Engine (along with the appropriate CSE keys), you can quickly search, copy, and download images from before 2022. It also has a ban list so you can filter out Shutterstock, Alamy, and other heavily watermarked sources.

The app is a hot circle of garbage code, but it might still be useful as a starting point.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-background_steel

[2] https://github.com/scpedicini/truman-show