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“Just give me the f***ing links!”—Cursing disables Google’s AI overviews (arstechnica.com)
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[–] [email protected] 5 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] 5too 5 points 7 hours ago

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.