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How to Turn Off AI Overview in Google and Set "Web" as Default

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Re: How to Turn Off AI Overview in Google and Set "Web" as Default

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I'm really curious - how will this affect sites that monetize off of affiliate links and ads? It seems to me that AI summarization and overview will deter, at the minimum reduce, the number of page clicks and traffic to sites that are producing information.

Nilay Patel interviewed Pichai and asked those types of questions. Personally, I found his answers unsatisfactory.

https://www.theverge.com/24158374/google-ceo-sundar-pichai-a...

Re: How to Turn Off AI Overview in Google and Set "Web" as Default

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Considering how much Google search has shaped my life, I am somewhat* surprised by the amount of people in this thread, who apparently have zero tolerance for continued innovation in this area and the rough edges it brings. *Oh well, it's hn, after all

It's kind of interesting when you look back a year or so to when ChatGPT came out, and the prevailing HN sentiment seemed to be that ChatGPT would be a Google Search killer, even back when it was even more prone to hallucinations and stating wild nonsense as fact.

Guess that was before the doomers had things to point fingers at.

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Wall St wants to see them keeping up with the latest tech. That's why Apple put billions into VR and we will hear nothing of it in 12-24 months. Another reason is talent retention/acquisition. AI will be history in 12-24 months when the bubble bursts and we are left with a mountain of cheap GPUs.

AI bubble? I wouldn't expect it but would be interesting to see if your prediction holds true.

I think it’s safe to assume that in the next few years almost all consumer hardware will be able to run a local LLM comfortably. And no one knows if LLMs can go beyond GPT-4 in a way that will genuinely blow people away.

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Em. At least one of them is real since I just got it. https://imgur.com/a/pY1VQC3 Query: how much would $3500 in 2015 be worth in 2024? Edit: And got a second one: https://imgur.com/a/E9HJcpn Query: what rhymes with pavement?

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Re: How to Turn Off AI Overview in Google and Set "Web" as Default

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Let me know if you ever get a result that's as wildly incorrect as those

I did, but you wouldn't believe me anyways.

1. https://nationalpost.com/entertainment/celebrity/no-one-will...

2. When another Anonymous video drops, how do we know it’s the real Anonymous? Do they even know?

Re: How to Turn Off AI Overview in Google and Set "Web" as Default

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Your loss, I will keep expanding my brain with the wisdom of Googles powerful AI https://imgur.com/a/g4qOU9a

The desperation to stay relevant and shout "AI! AI!" is so loud at Google that it drowns out all else, including common sense.

Maybe if Sundar et all have to drink buckets of urine per Google’s AI results they’ll be a bit more thoughtful.

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Your loss, I will keep expanding my brain with the wisdom of Googles powerful AI https://imgur.com/a/g4qOU9a

When searching for "Scarlett Johansson", https://i.imgur.com/fgtjBTj.jpeg Never seen these kinds of weird word combinations.

Just searched Scarlett Johansson on google and am getting the same oddities:

'What when ChatGPT like scarlett?'

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literally, how does anyone find this acceptable? It makes me feel dumb that I find this outrageous, like the emperor's new clothes: y'all can see this too right?

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Yes, we all know that Google searches appear exactly the same for all users.

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It is frankly astonishing how poor Gemini continues to be in tasks even suggested answers, Assistant and in part, Google Now covered in the past. Mistral, OpenAI, Anthropic and Meta all have their unique advantages and I have yet to find one LLM being superior in every task I use them for, but purely for such simple questions that should be in the training data, few are consistently as poor as Google efforts have bee…

I don't know, these screenshots look terrible, but my own experience using Gemini has been nothing short of pleasant and helpful.

It's the rush to use these services everywhere and mindlessly that is a big problem imho.

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If I already know the answer to something, why would I be looking it up? These answers from AI should assume the person on the other end doesn’t know anything and isn’t going to fact check. If they were going to fact check, they’d just look it up in the first place and not waste their time with AI. To me, a real sign of intelligence and maturity is being able to say, “I don’t know.” I always lose a lot of respect for…

If you have a question about the answer have the AI review it to make sure it's correct. I have gotten it to pull it's head out of its ass numerous times. It's like a conversation with a human. It's easy to hold it wrong if you believe things you see in print.

This is just completely disconnected from my original comment. What if someone reads "drink fruit juice to clear up kidney stones" from an AI and doesn't have a question about the answer because they don't fully understand what kidney stones are? The only response AI advocates seem to have is "not my problem." Or, far too often, the vindictive irresponsibility of "it was his fault for being so stupid that he trusted us."
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