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

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Post by xivzgrev » Fri, Jan 31, 2025, 11:41 PM UTC

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…

There will be a crash as with any hype cycle

But this is normal. A new thing is discovered, the market runs lots of tests to discover where it works / doesn’t, there’s a crash, valid use cases are found / scaled and the market matures.

Y’all surely lived thru the mobile app hype cycle, where every startup was “uber for x”.

The amount of money being spent today pales in comparison to the long term money on even one use case that scales. It’s a good bet if you are a VC.

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

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Post by Reason077 » Fri, Jan 31, 2025, 11:41 PM UTC

apazzolini wrote: post #30

The best way I've found to remove AI summaries from Google results is appending `&udm=14`.

I found that the "udm" trick disables all "rich content" in search results (ie: stuff that isn't a plain text search result link). But adding the following user rules in AdGuard for Safari does the job:

  google.com###m-x-content
  google.com###B2Jtyd

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

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Post by NikolaNovak » Fri, Jan 31, 2025, 11:42 PM UTC

greenavocado wrote: post #133

talldayo wrote: post #128

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

The Freemasons which rule over you in the form of police and courts and the legislative branch built the Georgia Guidestones

I genuinely cannot tell if this is a joke, or a serious hypothesis :-/

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

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Post by anigbrowl » Fri, Jan 31, 2025, 11:42 PM UTC

clircle wrote: post #8

Alternatively, you can just disable AI overviews in your Google settings. But that does not make for a very interesting Gizmodo article.

You should probably apologize or delete.

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

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Post by analog31 » Fri, Jan 31, 2025, 11:43 PM UTC

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…

The faint ray of hope that someone will engage has been the essence of advertising since time immoral.

It's similar to the question of why flies lay millions of eggs.

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

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Post by labster » Fri, Jan 31, 2025, 11:44 PM UTC

PaulDavisThe1st wrote: post #107

braza wrote: post #12

I work with ML and I am bullish with AI in general; said that, I would pay between 5 to 10 USD a feature or toggle called “No AI” for several services. For myself I noticed 2 bad effects in my daily usage: - Search: impossible to reach any original content in the first positions. Almost everything sounds like AIsh. The punctuation, the commas, the semicolon, the narro vocabulary, and the derivative nature of the rece…

Can this many people really have missed the udm=14 trick for google? udm14.com will demonstrate for you ...

This kind of UX reminds me of the days when you’d hear radio ads saying “Just point your browser to HTTP-colon-backslash-backslash-WWW-period …”

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

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Post by Wowfunhappy » Fri, Jan 31, 2025, 11:47 PM UTC

You can also append `&udm=14` to the end of your search url and the AI summary will go away.

If someone hasn't already made a userscript to do this automatically, someone should, it would be very easy.

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

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Post by ponector » Fri, Jan 31, 2025, 11:47 PM UTC

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.

Maybe you have a Chinese search engine to suggest? North Korean should be even better

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

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Post by anigbrowl » Fri, Jan 31, 2025, 11:47 PM UTC

kokanee wrote: post #34

dyauspitr wrote: post #6

Why would I want to do that? I find the summaries very useful

They are useful if you don't care whether the information is correct, don't care where it came from, and don't care that it was stolen from publishers who in many cases invested time and money with the expectation of receiving search traffic in exchange.

Each paragraph/bullet point typically has a little link icon beside it that directs to 2 or 3 sources. I wouldn't rely on it for anything important but it's OK if you just want a quick rundown on an unfamiliar topic and want to check out likely source material.

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

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Post by ryandrake » Fri, Jan 31, 2025, 11:50 PM UTC

xivzgrev wrote: post #151

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…

There will be a crash as with any hype cycle But this is normal. A new thing is discovered, the market runs lots of tests to discover where it works / doesn’t, there’s a crash, valid use cases are found / scaled and the market matures. Y’all surely lived thru the mobile app hype cycle, where every startup was “uber for x”. The amount of money being spent today pales in comparison to the long term money on even one us…

It's a weird cycle though where the order of everything is messed up.

The normal tech innovation model is: 1. User problem identified, 2. Technology advancement achieved, 3. Application built to solve problem

With AI, it's turned into: 1. Technology advancement achieved, 2. Applications haphazardly being built to do anything with Technology, 3. Frantic search for users who might want to use applications.

I don't know how the industry thinks they're going to make any money out of the new model.