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Comment by pier25 | Hacker News Reader

I wish Google would allow me to remove the AI stuff from search results.

99% of the times it's either useless or wrong.

Strong plus one here. Not only that, but it uses gobs of energy in total. Google has reneged on all of its carbon promises to stay in the running for AI domination and to head off disruption to search ads business. Since I've unconsciously trained my brain to not look at the top search results anymore because they long ago turned into impossible-to-distinguish ads, I've quickly learned to just ignore the stupid AI summary. So it's an absurd waste of computational power to generate something wrong that I don't even want to see, and I can't even tell them to stop when they're wasting their own money to do so.

It’s often wrong anyway. Much like you, the thing that annoys me most about it though is all the power they must be using having it run on every single search by anyone.

I have been using Kagi for a year now and it's been liberating. Its an ad/seo-free search engine.

https://kagi.com/

Sorry for the name dropping, I have no affiliation and am just a very happy user, so I wanted to share it as it felt adequate.

Add a -ai to the end of your Google search query. There are also browser extensions that stop the AI content from displaying. I use the one for Chrome called "Remove Google Search Generative AI".

Great tip! But it only remove's Google's terrible AI summary, not AI generated content from showing up in searches, which is what the OP wishes for. A combination of -ai and before:2022-01-01 is probably the closest we can get to that

This is vaporware/false advertising.

We don't have tech to correctly "detect ai" in 2024, which is why education has broken down over the last few years with serial cheating in every institution.

Every company so far that claimed to detect AI generated slug has failed.

you can block is with Ublock Origin

https://www.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/1ct5mpt/heres...

Nobody has any clue what is AI stuff these days. Apart from the obvious ones, no one can tell a generative AI apart from 3D rendered stuff or low-res photos. Put image compression on top and it's definitely impossible.

I meant the bit of AI that Google adds on top the actual search results.

Ah sure, that stuff is just annyoing. I don't need a - probably wrong - summary of the top hit either.

I wonder what the outcome will be when new models are trained on AI-generated data. These companies are already running out of quality training data. So when most of the data on the internet is synthetic, will they find ways of separating the signal from the noise, or will all the noise lead to a convergence of performance across all models to something that is much inferior than what we have today?

This tech will make the internet even more unbearable to use, without mentioning its huge potential for abuse. This is far worse than whatever positives it might have, which are still unclear. What a shitshow.

Udm?

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