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Re: Add "fucking" to your Google searches to neutralize AI summaries

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Post by voidhorse »

autoexec wrote: post #103

Every time some product or service introduces AI (or more accurately shoves it down our throats) people start looking for a way to get rid of it. It's so strange how much money and time companies are pouring into "features" that the public continues to reject at every opportunity. At this point I'm convinced that the endless AI hype and all the investment is purely due to hopes that it will soon put vast numbers of e…

Precisely. From day one this was about doing what industrialization did for manual labor for "white collar" work.

Re: Add "fucking" to your Google searches to neutralize AI summaries

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Post by smt88 »

autoexec wrote: post #103

Every time some product or service introduces AI (or more accurately shoves it down our throats) people start looking for a way to get rid of it. It's so strange how much money and time companies are pouring into "features" that the public continues to reject at every opportunity. At this point I'm convinced that the endless AI hype and all the investment is purely due to hopes that it will soon put vast numbers of e…

AI has value the way self-checkout has value: it's anti-consumer and widely hated, but it (can) save the companies money and will therefore be too widespread for anyone to opt out.

Re: Add "fucking" to your Google searches to neutralize AI summaries

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Post by basscomm »

autoexec wrote: post #103

Every time some product or service introduces AI (or more accurately shoves it down our throats) people start looking for a way to get rid of it. It's so strange how much money and time companies are pouring into "features" that the public continues to reject at every opportunity. At this point I'm convinced that the endless AI hype and all the investment is purely due to hopes that it will soon put vast numbers of e…

> At this point I'm convinced that the endless AI hype and all the investment is purely due to hopes that it will soon put vast amounts of employees out of work

It's this part.

Salaries and benefits are expensive. A computer program doesn't need a salary, retirement benefits, insurance, retirement, doesn't call in sick, doesn't take vacations, works 24/7, etc.

Re: Add "fucking" to your Google searches to neutralize AI summaries

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Post by russellbeattie »

So much overreaction to this feature. You can turn it off, just look for it.

I think the AI summaries are super useful. 90% of the time it answers the question I have accurately and concisely, saving me time and effort.

The paragraph summaries give me a good overview of a topic, and the links to the original sources save me from scanning through tons of websites looking for details.

I never fully trust the AI summary, it's just a better way to look for information. I click on the reference link often to double check the source and the accuracy of the summary. I think I've only discovered a discrepancy once or twice.

Google isn't a utility, if you don't like Gemini, go use DDG or Bing.

Re: Add "fucking" to your Google searches to neutralize AI summaries

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Post by Fomite »

autoexec wrote: post #103

Every time some product or service introduces AI (or more accurately shoves it down our throats) people start looking for a way to get rid of it. It's so strange how much money and time companies are pouring into "features" that the public continues to reject at every opportunity. At this point I'm convinced that the endless AI hype and all the investment is purely due to hopes that it will soon put vast numbers of e…

"How do I tell Copilot to go fuck itself?" - My mother during a recent tech support call.

Re: Add "fucking" to your Google searches to neutralize AI summaries

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Post by greenavocado »

voidhorse wrote: post #111
autoexec wrote: post #103

Every time some product or service introduces AI (or more accurately shoves it down our throats) people start looking for a way to get rid of it. It's so strange how much money and time companies are pouring into "features" that the public continues to reject at every opportunity. At this point I'm convinced that the endless AI hype and all the investment is purely due to hopes that it will soon put vast numbers of e…

Precisely. From day one this was about doing what industrialization did for manual labor for "white collar" work.

The end goal is a global panopticon followed by a culling of the herd. Read the inscriptions: https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeo...

Re: Add "fucking" to your Google searches to neutralize AI summaries

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Post by mrandish »

roskelld wrote: post #73
bmurphy1976 wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The quoted words search barely works these days anyway.

This bugs me so much. It happens constantly. A few days back I searched for a person's name, put it in quotes and I got results with celebrity with somewhat similar name. Zero hits on the person I searched for on the front page. I had to add specifics to the query such as job title to find them.

Amazon Search is now nearly completely useless for any kind of targeted search. Heaven help you if you're looking for a product without a certain attribute most other products like it all have. There is quite literally no way to filter results against one attribute. Even if Amazon has that product, you won't be able to find it.

I eventually just scripted a separate search engine query that's site specific to Amazon. It works but not as well as it could because it doesn't have access to my purchase history or Amazon's hidden granular category taxonomy.

Re: Add "fucking" to your Google searches to neutralize AI summaries

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Post by nixonpjoshua »

bmurphy1976 wrote: post #60
edflsafoiewq wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's not like it doesn't freely ignore any unquoted word whenever it feels like it.

The quoted words search barely works these days anyway.

I haven't had quotations work for me in search in years now, it's really sad how boolean operators have stopped working too. I find it particularly difficult to search for "non latex" products as adding quotes on the total term no longer works and I just get products full of latex. Also I can't use boolean search to find the product because it just ignores the "-" in front of the word and gives a ton of results that match the search term latex.

Just an example where it isn't just making it harder to search for a profit motive but it's actually actively preventing (both Amazon and Google) from showing me the results or even ads for the product I actually want to buy.

If anyone has a good solution to this I would appreciate it, there is often a non-latex version of most all latex based products but finding them online is impossible if you don't already know the brand name!

Re: Add "fucking" to your Google searches to neutralize AI summaries

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Post by segasaturn »

pjc50 wrote: post #50
danso wrote: post #37

One tip I like to give for exploring public data is to do an early search for the word "fuck". It's a pretty ubiquitous word, but one that you assume shouldn't show up for certain fields, so seeing it, or not seeing it, can give useful insight to the the scope of the data universe and collection. Including where/who the data comes from, whether or not any validation exists during the collection process, and how updat…

There used to be a Fucking, Austria until they decided to self censor for the pesky English speakers. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fugging,_Upper_Austria

The rebranding is funny since people on TikTok also use "fugging" to evade censorship.

Re: Add "fucking" to your Google searches to neutralize AI summaries

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Post by [deleted] »

treefarmer wrote: post #3

The downside of this approach is that it can affect the search results returned. But I found that if you add " -fuck" or " -fucking" to your search term, it disables the AI summary without significantly affecting your search results (unless you happen to be looking for content of a certain kind).

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