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

[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.

[hackworth@lemmy.world]

On the other hand, AI can also spot obvious errors. And the more stressed out, overworked, understaffed, and generally bombarded departments become, the more people will miss obvious errors.

[zink@programming.dev]

Now that you mention it, DDG’s AI assist button is probably my most used LLM because it’s just there & available without being intrusive.

Some web searches lend themselves well to a quick generated paragraph.

[rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world]

Ugrading the A. I. to A. Aye!

[mogranja@lemmy.eco.br]

They should hire someone to name things there. The only worse name I can think of would be to drop the "App" and just call it "Windows".

[nutwrench@lemmy.world]

I think the best way to make the Internet less sh*tty is to get away from Google search.

I like the SearX search engine. It gives old-school, relevant search results, not google ranked ones.

https://search.inetol.net/

It's also spread out over many separate instances, so you can pick the one that best suits your search needs:

https://searx.space/

[saprophyte@lemmy.world]

Now how do I make "-site=reddit.com" the default? So tired of seeing people ask the same question I had without giving that asshole answers either.

[alphane_moon@lemmy.world]

I tried two instances search.inetol.net and priv.au and I got no results for basic web search.

But northboot.xyz worked.

Am I missing something? How do I pick a given instance?

[dojan@lemmy.world]

People can call me a shill if they want. I was curious when I first tried Kagi, but sceptical, but now I'm really happy. It's fun to see new features make it on there, and more than anything I love that I can make the search engine work for me instead of having to faff about trying to phrase stuff in a way where I can coax what I want out of it.

If I hate a particular website, I'll just block it and never see it again. It's so simple. The new "AI generated" tags on images is nice, and I hope we can see something similar for websites at some point too. Maybe flag sites that are known to use LLMs for garbage accumulation. There might already even be a blocklist for that.

[dirthawker0@lemmy.world]

I haven't tried this for adding a parameter but check this article about turning off the AI summary: https://www.tomshardware.com/software/google-chrome/bye-bye-ai-how-to-block-googles-annoying-ai-overviews-and-just-get-search-results

Jump down to "How to block AI overviews when searching from Chrome's address bar on the Desktop" and they walk through adding a Google search with an & parameter. Not sure if it will accept a -site: but worth a try

[iheartcheese@lemmy.world]

shitty

Don't mind me just here to corrupt the children you tried to save

[threshold_dweller@lemmy.today]

So stop using them. Google has been worse and worse for at least a decade.

[mergingapples@lemmy.world]

God damnit that pun is way too good.

[hollownaught@lemmy.world]

I've been using search xng for a while now, it's honestly really good