Maybe I just don’t Google easy questions, but I have never had that AI overview give me the answer I wanted.
It’s always answering taking the easy way out and answering a different question.
If you give it a question with only bad answers, it’ll hallucinate a feel-good wrong answer.
&udm=14is still unknown??Get off Google. There are alternatives, Qwant, Startpage, whatever floats your boat. I swapped to Kagi and honestly haven’t looked back.
DuckDuckGo 🦆
Ddg has an AI assistant thing too, you can turn it off though
And the choice is what matters.
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.
Honestly I just use ChatGPT for all my questions now
Hopefully not for anything that requires an accurate result…
If you ask it to find a source website rather then an explicit answer i don’t see why not.
The internet is full of lies to begin with, i wouldn’t trust the snippets on the google search page either.
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.
That’s certainly a choice
He wants to help development of “open” “ai”
It’s like we are living in some sort of satirical, absurdist play or novel about a dystopian future.
Complaining I was recommended by Gemini to contact Google support. When I asked for the link it replied “link to Google”.
It’s been my understanding that you do not contact Google. You read their docs and you like it. Have I been mistaken?
I like how in their slippery pizza cheese example, google’s ai referenced a really old Reddit comment about how adding glue to the cheese will make it less slippery. Lol
My favorite was the story of John Backflip
That used to be how you would get past voice response systems and get to an operator quickly as well: just say “fuck”, once, clearly.
Most of the systems where this worked did it for any unrecognized words.
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…
Mashing 0 repeatedly works well.
I googled turn off the fucking ai and the overviews are now gone. I’m surprised it’s that easy to turn off.
cool
So stop using them. Google has been worse and worse for at least a decade.
