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I wish Google would allow me to remove the AI stuff from search results. 99% of the times it's either useless or wrong.

by pier25 2y ago

fraXis 2y ago
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".
- dangerwill 2y ago
  Great tip! But it only remove's Google's terrible AI summary, not AI generated content from showing up in searches, which is what the OP wishes for. A combination of -ai and before:2022-01-01 is probably the closest we can get to that
- 1kaizen 2y ago
  This is vaporware/false advertising. We don't have tech to correctly "detect ai" in 2024, which is why education has broken down over the last few years with serial cheating in every institution. Every company so far that claimed to detect AI generated slug has failed.
titzer 2y ago
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.
- Tempat 2y ago
  It’s often wrong anyway. Much like you, the thing that annoys me most about it though is all the power they must be using having it run on every single search by anyone.
- deleted 2y ago
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Slyfox33 2y ago
you can block is with Ublock Origin https://www.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/1ct5mpt/heres_how_to_disable_googles_new_forced_ai/ https://www.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/1ct5mpt/heres...
Lcchy 2y ago
I have been using Kagi for a year now and it's been liberating. Its an ad/seo-free search engine. https://kagi.com/ https://kagi.com/ 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.
cobalt60 2y ago
Udm?
KeplerBoy 2y ago
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.
- pier25 2y ago
  I meant the bit of AI that Google adds on top the actual search results.
  - KeplerBoy 2y ago
    Ah sure, that stuff is just annyoing. I don't need a - probably wrong - summary of the top hit either.
- imiric 2y ago
  I wonder what the outcome will be when new models are trained on AI-generated data. These companies are already running out of quality training data. So when most of the data on the internet is synthetic, will they find ways of separating the signal from the noise, or will all the noise lead to a convergence of performance across all models to something that is much inferior than what we have today? This tech will make the internet even more unbearable to use, without mentioning its huge potential for abuse. This is far worse than whatever positives it might have, which are still unclear. What a shitshow.

I wish Google would allow me to remove the AI stuff from search results. 99% of the times it's either useless or wrong.

by pier25 2y ago

I wish Google would allow me to remove the AI stuff from search results. 99% of the times it's either useless or wrong.

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".

dangerwill 2y ago
Great tip! But it only remove's Google's terrible AI summary, not AI generated content from showing up in searches, which is what the OP wishes for. A combination of -ai and before:2022-01-01 is probably the closest we can get to that
1kaizen 2y ago
This is vaporware/false advertising. We don't have tech to correctly "detect ai" in 2024, which is why education has broken down over the last few years with serial cheating in every institution. Every company so far that claimed to detect AI generated slug has failed.

titzer 2y ago

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.

Tempat 2y ago
It’s often wrong anyway. Much like you, the thing that annoys me most about it though is all the power they must be using having it run on every single search by anyone.
deleted 2y ago
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Slyfox33 2y ago

you can block is with Ublock Origin https://www.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/1ct5mpt/heres_how_to_disable_googles_new_forced_ai/ https://www.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/1ct5mpt/heres...

Lcchy 2y ago

I have been using Kagi for a year now and it's been liberating. Its an ad/seo-free search engine. https://kagi.com/ https://kagi.com/ 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.

cobalt60 2y ago

Udm?

KeplerBoy 2y ago

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.

pier25 2y ago
I meant the bit of AI that Google adds on top the actual search results.
- KeplerBoy 2y ago
  Ah sure, that stuff is just annyoing. I don't need a - probably wrong - summary of the top hit either.
imiric 2y ago
I wonder what the outcome will be when new models are trained on AI-generated data. These companies are already running out of quality training data. So when most of the data on the internet is synthetic, will they find ways of separating the signal from the noise, or will all the noise lead to a convergence of performance across all models to something that is much inferior than what we have today? This tech will make the internet even more unbearable to use, without mentioning its huge potential for abuse. This is far worse than whatever positives it might have, which are still unclear. What a shitshow.