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

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

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Post by ljm »

TimTheTinker wrote: post #53
dmansen wrote: post #11

I have also been telling Gemini to "fuck off" in my gmail, but that doesn't seem to make it go away

I too want a way to make Gemini go away in gmail. I regret clicking the "Try it out" button.

Using a native email client or something other than gmail would do the job (protonmail, Fastmail, hell… iCloud mail)

Can’t remember the last time I used gmail in the browser. And gmail is only ever because startups use gsuite by default.

Google is only going to do more of this shit unless they start hurting from a drop in traffic.

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

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Post by labster »

pjc50 wrote: post #52
bluetidepro wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For search, use Kagi. You don’t have to use their AI products at all to just use search.

Left field tip if you think a search engine is hiding stuff: Yandex. They're not actually Russian any more, but they're far enough down the list of search engines that nobody bothers to DMCA them.

They are in fact Russian any more, the Dutch company that owned Yandex sold to Russian investors last July.

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

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Post by n4r9 »

smt88 wrote: post #112
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.

Self-checkout has come a long way IMO. I love not having to queue as long or speak to staff. The occasional "unknown item" still happens, but it's worth it. Even better are the ones in smaller shops that don't have a weighing sensor.

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

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Post by hinkley »

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…

Somewhere there’s a graph that went boop just enough to get someone a promotion, a raise, or a bonus.

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

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Post by autoexec »

smt88 wrote: post #112
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.

Self-checkout has its uses and supporters. Introverts, the socially anxious, people in a hurry, people who'd much prefer to bag (or double/triple bag) their own items in ways that work best for them, people who want to get the organic tomato at the price of the non-organic one.

It's absolutely still a scheme by companies to get rid of employees and get customers to do work for them for free, and there are still issues with the systems not working very well, but we at least have the option (in almost all cases) to queue up at the one or two registers with an employee doing the work. When it comes to AI, we're often not being given any choice at all. Even if we can avoid using it, or somehow avoid seeing it, we will still be training it.

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

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Post by hinkley »

Fomite wrote: post #115
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.

Siri will shut up if you yell,

“Nobody asked you, Siri!” at it.

And that, kids, is how I met your mother.

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

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Post by talldayo »

greenavocado wrote: post #116
voidhorse wrote: post #111

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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...

Sometimes I worry that the internet has enabled ordinary but gullible people to find exactly the supporting evidence they need to be considered insane by society.

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

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Post by hinkley »

jameslk wrote: post #4

If I start fucking adding swear words to all my fucking search queries, how the fuck will the stupid ass search engine know that I did not want it to use that shit as one of my keywords and give me back a whole lot of fucked up shit?

Well I’m reasonably certain you don’t want advice from a search engine on the topic of fucking.

You may think you do, but I am certain you do not.

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