alt Hacker NewsI wish Google would allow me to remove the AI stuff from search results.
99% of the times it's either useless or wrong.
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I have been using Kagi for a year now and it's been liberating. Its an ad/seo-free search engine.
Sorry for the name dropping, I have no affiliation and am just a very happy user, so I wanted to share it as it felt adequate.
Add a -ai to the end of your Google search query. There are also browser extensions that stop the AI content from displaying. I use the one for Chrome called "Remove Google Search Generative AI".
you can block is with Ublock Origin
https://www.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/1ct5mpt/heres...
Nobody has any clue what is AI stuff these days. Apart from the obvious ones, no one can tell a generative AI apart from 3D rendered stuff or low-res photos. Put image compression on top and it's definitely impossible.
Udm?
Strong plus one here. Not only that, but it uses gobs of energy in total. Google has reneged on all of its carbon promises to stay in the running for AI domination and to head off disruption to search ads business. Since I've unconsciously trained my brain to not look at the top search results anymore because they long ago turned into impossible-to-distinguish ads, I've quickly learned to just ignore the stupid AI summary. So it's an absurd waste of computational power to generate something wrong that I don't even want to see, and I can't even tell them to stop when they're wasting their own money to do so.