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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 goostavos »

renlo wrote: post #43
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…

Spotify used to have a "dislike" button for their Discover Weekly which helped with pruning music you don't like, but with the natural law of tech enshitification they removed that feature a month ago.

That was such a frustrating decision. I had almost convinced Spotify that that one time I listened to Lustmord was just a random mood, and I don't actually want to only listen to dronecore for the rest of my life.

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

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Post by mythrwy »

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.

What is the plan for this over time?

I understand the appeal of not wanting to wade through 20 links to find information (especially given SEO stuff that is often on top) but why will people continue to publish as traffic decreases due to AI summaries?

I mean I understand the urgent need to keep up but the problem with "theft" is eventually it drives out honest production and everyone is worse off.

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

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Post by roskelld »

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.

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.

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

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Post by 85392_school »

btown wrote: post #46

> This is not the first time internet sleuths have discovered a way to disable Google’s AI-powered results. Other methods are more complicated, however, like adding a specific string of characters to the search results page URL. This method of swearing and pleading at Google to “just give me the fucking links” is much more cathartic. "More complicated" is actually just as simple as going to https://tenbluelinks.org/…

You might have even accidentally used the "no AI" mode if you've clicked the Web option before.

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

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Post by ToucanLoucan »

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…

I respect your opinion but at the same time:

> 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.

Hard fuck this. I am not giving a company money to un-ruin their service. Just go to a competitor.

I get with a bunch of these hyperscaled businesses it's borderline impossible to entirely escape them, but do what you can. I was an Adobe subscriber for years, and them putting their AI garbage into every app (along with them all steadily getting shittier and shittier to use) finally made me jump ship. I couldn't be happier. Yeah there was pain, there was adjustment period, but we need to cut these fuckers off already. No more eternal subscription fees for mediocre software.

Office is next. This copilot shit is getting worse by the day.

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

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Post by belter »

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 at least you will get great travel suggestions to Austria....

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fugging,_Upper_Austria

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

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Post by godelski »

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?

To be fair, it's not like Google respects things like quotes or "-" so who says it won't just ignore your swear words?

I'm joking, somewhat, but can we seriously start getting mad about this shit?

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

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Post by godelski »

edflsafoiewq wrote: post #56
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?

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

  > It's not like it doesn't freely ignore any quoted word whenever it feels like it.
FTFY

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

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Post by mrandish »

tokioyoyo wrote: post #68
mrandish wrote: post #62

I waste so much time figuring out how to get a previously functional tool to stop shoving AI generated crap I don't want and never asked for in front of me. They either provide no way to turn it off or hide how to turn it off deep in settings surrounded by dark patterns. I think it's because management at these companies has set AI usage metrics as a critical KPI. Thus teams are highly incentivized to just stick that…

Not sure if it works for everyone, but write a quick addon that changes your browser’s Agent header to something random or find an open source one. Google seems to freak out and give a bit different version of itself. I discovered it accidentally, not sure how far it works though.

I'll give that a try. I already have several userscripts in ViolentMonkey just to fix various annoying things about Google Search (like default re-enabling the Tools dropdown, adding several new date options to that dropdown and unhiding the search results-count (which is still there but now hidden by default)). And of course, YouTube is completely unusable without the Nova YouTube suite of modular userscripts.

Unshittifying my daily use Internet sites, browser (Firefox) and operating system (Windows) is becoming extremely annoying. It used to just require an occasional tweak here or there. Now some new enshittification or regression pops up almost every week. Most of it's just removing new things they keep adding or restoring useful features killed because they weren't driving this quarter's KPI du jour or as part of some designer's misguided quest to achieve the Zen-like simplicity of 'perfect emptiness'.

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

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Post by mitthrowaway2 »

sunshinesnacks wrote: post #33
ok_dad wrote: post #17

At least for now, you can just append "-ai" onto your query and the AI summary will not be there.

That’s handy. Looks like it doesn’t work if “ai” is also in your search, though. E.g., https://www.google.com/search?q=how+to+disable+ai+overview+i...

The eternal struggle with in-band signalling...
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