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Comment by wpm

15 days ago

I should be able to go into my settings and just say “don’t ever show me AI search results unless I ask, which doesn’t mean using a normal, commonplace punctuation mark”.

It’s very frustrating that “turn it off” is a fucking afterthought to “turn it on” for a service I pay for.

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sshine  15 days ago

> “turn it off” is a fucking afterthought to “turn it on”

Kagi is an AI-oriented company from the start, not an “… and AI!” gimmick. AI-curated search results are believed to eventually replace normal search results.

If I just want a factoid on a website, I might as well have a program crawl and scan for it.

If I want the summary and I don’t bother reading the long version, I might as well have a program crawl and summarise.

If I want specific details in a big document, and I am not familiar with the wording to look for, I might as well prompt.

It’s like complaining about shellfish at a seafood restaurant. :-)

  • wpm  13 days ago

    Kagi was not, to my memory, positioned this way early on when I started paying for it. It was "search but not dogshit because we're not being sponsored by the search results".

    If I want a factoid on a website, I want to see it with my own eyes, not filtered through some non-deterministic shit machine that might tell me the right answer. To each their own but me getting what I want doesn't get in your way at all, so we should both be able to use Kagi the way we want to.