I’ve been paying attention a lot lately and the AI Overviews are wrong pretty often. Even so, they are the first thing you see and you cannot turn them off. Is this not a danger of misinformation?

[u/aiyrstone]

Also you can add a “web filter which only displays links…” so… what a regular search engine does?

Bear with me because I happen to be extra prone to conspiracy shit but how do I know what’s behind that AI or who’s feeding it its information. And when so many (especially young people) base their knowledge off the first line they read after a search, this seems dangerous. Yet, it’s always at the very top, and it cannot be disabled.

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[u/Perfect_Caregiver_90]

If you curse in your search it does not return an AI summary. For the moment an f-bomb is a quick workaround.

[u/Giopoggi2 → u/Perfect_Caregiver_90]

"How to fucking cook a goddamn tomato soup"

[u/Consumer_of_lem0ns → u/Giopoggi2]

How the FUCK do I play mahjong?

[u/Giopoggi2 → u/Consumer_of_lem0ns]

Now we know the whole r/batmanarkham subreddit is safe from Google AI

[u/Perfect_Caregiver_90 → u/Giopoggi2]

I did a similar search looking for a recipe. My search history looks absolutely unhinged now.

[u/NewTree9500 → u/Perfect_Caregiver_90]

fuck yeah

[u/Intrepid-Look-5181 → u/Perfect_Caregiver_90]

How the fuck do I build a dog house 

[u/UnlimitedDeep → u/Perfect_Caregiver_90]

Or just write -ai in your search query

[u/Perfect_Caregiver_90 → u/UnlimitedDeep]

My route is more fun. 

[u/Satjuan]

if you put -ai at the end of your search it will not show the ai overview.

[u/quanoncob → u/Satjuan]

A more advanced solution from that workaround is you can append "-ai" after the search URL. Just go to your search engines settings in your browser and put it like this

[u/DuckEarther]

You can type -ai at the start of your search which removes the ai overview. Awful solution but at least it works and removes it

[u/Neat_Tap_2274]

This is an attempt to control and manage website traffic. These AI summaries are gathered from scraping sites all over the world. So if you get the answer from the summary, you don’t have to go to the website. It’s a real traffic killer.

[u/Smeagolmyboy]

Unless you search the net worth of billionaires, the only situation where the ai is disabled.

Wouldn't want ai scraping for all that info or?

[u/heckinWeeb193 → u/Smeagolmyboy]

Funnily enough, if you add a swear word to your search, it won't show up. But what's even FUNNIER is that there have been some memes spread around about how God awful this fucking thing is, if you searched up "Is it ok to leave a dog in a hot car" Google ai will encourage you to do so, quoting a famous Beatles song called "Its OK to leave your dog in a hot Car"

Now when you look it up the ai just isn't there. Lmao.

[u/Blueberryaddict007]

If you swear in the search it’ll turn off the ai overview

[u/hyperionbrandoreos]

I did something with my browser to disable it, look up a tutorial based on firefox/Chrome etc.

[u/tubularaf17]

yeah i’ve been swearing in my google searches since i learned that damn thing won’t pop up

[u/Canyobeatit]

Add motherfucker to the end of searches and it won't come up

[u/WildMartin429]

One of my favorite examples of this floating around the internet is where somebody typed the same question into Google on two different devices and got opposite answers and they took a picture of it side by side. One device answered yes the other device answered no to the question.

[u/KhoshekhGharl]

-ai at the end of your search turns it off.

[u/ElishaAlison]

Yeah AI definitely can't find the nuance in literally any conversation.

Sometimes I honestly wonder if it simply reads the first paragraph of what would ordinarily be the first result on the old Google 🤔😅

[u/madsmcgivern511]

Am I the only one that doesn’t mind the AI overview? Granted yes, it’s probably wrong most of the time, but when it’s gathering its information from genuine sources such as .edu, .gov, .org, it makes me think at least it’s somewhat accurate. And by me saying I like the AI overview, I mean on the sense of quick topics I need a yes or no on, or just brief info about. As someone who hates having to search through websites and just wants a quick answer, it’s definitely helpful, but not on a professional level yet at ALL. If I don’t believe what it’s telling me, I usually then just go to an actual website to confirm/deny if it’s accurate at all.

[u/Alive-Mission1912]

For me mine updated too and I find this annoying not to mention dangerous

[u/ShadowWriter21]

On Firefox you can use an extension to not see it and not even think about it FYI, and it's worthwhile to switch to Firefox if you aren't already using it

[u/aiyrstone → u/ShadowWriter21]

Perfect, I just switched to Firefox on my PC!

[u/ShadowWriter21 → u/aiyrstone]

Nice! If you need it the extension I use is called NoGoogleAI, and you can also choose to use Duckduckgo instead which does let you turn off their AI in their settings and it seems to be better these days for searching as it isn't as ad infested as Google

[u/Natural_Feed9041]

Why would you think they would tell you how to turn them off.

[u/aiyrstone → u/Natural_Feed9041]

It’s not that they don’t tell me, it’s that you legitimately cannot shut it off

[u/Yojimbo8810]

Use DuckDuckGo. They allow you to turn that shit off.

[u/Accomplished_Emu_658]

Got to read actual information to check the ai, i am sure most are not

[u/aiyrstone → u/Accomplished_Emu_658]

One bad part about this is that kids especially do not dig that deep. They read the first thing that pops up as fact.