“Just give me the f***ing links!”—Cursing disables Google’s AI overviews

[5too@lemmy.world]

Carbon footprint - AI burns a lot more power than old fashioned search results.

I get wanting to cost them more, but I don't think they'll see this use case as a cost.

[sterile_technique@lemmy.world]

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=idiocracy fries

[dan@upvote.au]

Most of the systems where this worked did it for any unrecognized words.

[dan@upvote.au]

They're different things. The comment you're replying to is talking about different search engines. SearxNG is a metasearch engine - it combines results from multiple different search engines together.

Both are important. If you use SearXNG but only enable Google, the results will be the same as if you used Google directly. However, some of the other search engines may have better results for some search engines than Google does.

[eatthecake@lemmy.world]

I googled turn off the fucking ai and the overviews are now gone. I'm surprised it's that easy to turn off.

[satansmaggotycumfart@lemmy.world]

I use ChatGPT to help me figure out my prompts for DeepSeek.

[firoaren@sh.itjust.works]

Why does this work?

[skaverat@discuss.tchncs.de]

you'll just make the AI scottish

[artvandelay@lemmy.world]

Because Google has set it up to work. A query parameter is just that it's a parameter for your query. In this case Google has said that parameter to disable AI search results.

[laurelraven@lemmy.zip]

Any recommendations on how to get started with that? I've been using it but without digging through a frankly intimidating list of configuration options, I'm not feeling like it's really adding much value yet

[xanthobilly@lemmy.world]

Or don’t, because that guy is busy getting access to the Fed to burn everything down.

[xanthobilly@lemmy.world]

Mashing 0 repeatedly works well.

[subverb@lemmy.world]

Careful. I suggested kagi in another thread and was accused of being a shill.

Don't understand how people can pay $7 for a coffee but won't consider paying $5 or $10 a month for clean search results.

[kspatlas@sopuli.xyz]

Ddg has an AI assistant thing too, you can turn it off though

[drusenija@aussie.zone]

and correct it in the system

Have you dealt with any large company's first level support these days? They're not empowered to do anything in the system in the vast majority of cases (to be clear, this isn't a dig at support, it's at the companies that don't give their staff the tools to actually do their job).

Yes, most people can spot an obvious error, but actually correcting it in the system is usually much more difficult.

[geedubhayduke@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

FUCKING TELEVISION!

[landless2029@lemmy.world]

And the choice is what matters.

[empricorn@feddit.nl]

This is true and FedEx absolutely used it. Was going through their circular automated phone system saying "Agent" and such until I started cursing. Then, I was finally directed to a person. Not sure if it still works these days though...

[spacecowboy@lemmy.ca]

It'll certainly make for some contentious AI.

[spacecowboy@lemmy.ca]

The reason why the humans controlling things suck at it is because they've cowed down people to not demand better. Accepting shitty AI instead of humans is just being cowed down even lower.