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Comment by randycupertino

13 hours ago

I think of my mom who doesn't care and doesn't understand the difference between google AI Overview vs actual google search results. "I looked it up" - she doesn't care what tool she is using she just wants answers to how long bake pork or the best throw pillows to buy or whatever else she is looking up.

She's mostly using google AI tools because it's easy and free and on her landing page.

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m11a  13 hours ago

tbh I also use google AI tools frequently. It’s convenient (search bar is top of my window), and extremely fast at generation. For quick Qs, opening a chat bot and changing the default reasoning from my coding settings, switching from Work to Chat, etc etc, is too much of a faff.

  • yard2010  8 hours ago

    I ended up adding -ai to every search in the browser level to turn this crap off. I couldn't find a way to disable it otherwise. I did it after it hallucinated the world cup games schedule which made my friend send wrong events to everyone after he "looked it up". Can't stop this from him, but at least this honest mistake won't happen to me.

    • ShadowOfThePit  34 minutes ago

      Surely there's an extension for whatever browser you are using?

        Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/hide-google-ai-overviews/
  Chromium: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/hide-google-ai-overviews/neibhohkbmfjninidnaoacabkjonbahn
  Safari: Seems there are none

sharkweek  10 hours ago

My mom texted me the following when Windows did some big update integrating AI and probably had one of those menu bar popups announce it:

“Sharkweek, my computer says it has AI on it now!?? Yikes! What does that mean?”

Barbing  9 hours ago

“Is that just what AI says?”

‘No, it’s from $majorAmericanCorporation.’ look at screen, see $majorAmericanCorporation name in a pill as citation you can click on within the Google AI Overview

Thanks Google!

dyauspitr  8 hours ago

I use that google AI overview a lot but I’m still using ChatGPT for 80% of my queries now.