cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1144611/google-disregard-right-now-if-you-want-to-see-where-ai-overviews-fall-short-similar-comm
For comparison, Bing and Kagi responses
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IRC prank from the 2000s: if you type
/quit playing games with my heartyou’ll hear a cool pop song.2020s: if you type
quitinto Google it will understand this as an AI prompt.i dont understand why go through so many hoops just to use shitty search engine, is using google really worth that?
It just has more of the web in its index than competitors do, so there are good practical reasons on occasion.
There’s an extension called Disable AI that gets rid of those intrusive Google Search AI “replies”. I strongly recommend people to use it, because… seriously, they are convincing but misleading trash.
The two phonemic transcriptions of “disregard” in the first picture are a prime example of that. I could go on a full rant about it, but to keep it short: compare them with the ones provided by Wiktionary, and play “spot the differences”. (Bonus points if you also play “spot the undeclared assumptions”.)
There’s also https://noai.duckduckgo.com/
You can also change it in the settings. Look for “search assist”; values are “never”, “on demand”, “sometimes”, and “often”.
But yeah, to be frank I use mostly DDG nowadays, I focused on Google due to the OP.
Ublock origin -> block element
Browser settings -> search engine -> literally anywhere else
FYI when I tried Kagi’s Quick Answer out of curiosity, even that gave me a dictionary definition for “disregard”. That being the case, I’d trust it about as much as I trust Google’s AI overviews (which is to mean “not at all”). It just doesn’t show up for me unless I prompt it.
FWIW just searching Kagi (the way someone searched Google here) yields a dictionary definition “provided by WordsAPI”. So it’s actually
- trustworthy
- predictable
- fast
- energy-efficient
You can’t say any of those things about AI.
Normally, yes. That always seems to be one of the results.
I specifically forced it to do a quick answer, and it still gave me a definition. Interestingly, for “disregard”, it also covered a bit about the Google nonsense results after defining the word.
Well of course, how else would a chatbot react? Do people really “use” this, intentionally?
Google claims they do. During their last presentation, they boasted about billions of users of their AI. The sheer gall of these people!
Yes, default users “use” this because it’s helpful, until it’s not.
None of these are working for me, except maybe skip which just displays results without the AI box.
