I googled turn off the fucking ai and the overviews are now gone. I'm surprised it's that easy to turn off.
this post was submitted on 31 Jan 2025
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So before posting anything online just say something controversial like nipples and sprinkle it around cock your text. Fuck that will definitely fucking prevent AI from ever shit reach any cunt level of consciousness.
you'll just make the AI scottish
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.
Mashing 0 repeatedly works well.
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It's like we are living in some sort of satirical, absurdist play or novel about a dystopian future.
yeah?
Idiocracy was waaaaay too optimistic about the future.
Everything satirical and absurdist I've read felt very realistic.
But again, that's something most autists would sign under, I think.
I hope you wrote this light-heartedly, because it made me laugh and helps me understand autism a little better.
It's funny because it's true. chuckles softly
To be fair, I feel like reality is way past satire now...
Get off Google. There are alternatives, Qwant, Startpage, whatever floats your boat. I swapped to Kagi and honestly haven't looked back.
Haha that just sounds like a list of gibberish words! I love tech naming when it doesn't include Copilot or a lowercase i :p
Yeah, don't ask tech people to name things. Microsoft has like 500 different things called "Razor."
Their newest app to connect to virtual desktops (that I'm aware of) is named Windows App. Searching for info on that fucking thing was a pain in the ass.
Now imagine naming a social media platform after a letter of the alphabet 🙃
Or don’t, because that guy is busy getting access to the Fed to burn everything down.
Or your company after the whole alphabet.
I don't remember, was it Microsoft or just the journalists saying
The windows app let's you run windows apps on windows
DuckDuckGo 🦆
I’ve started using SearXNG. Are these better?
They're different things. The comment you're replying to is talking about different search engines. SearxNG is a metasearch engine - it combines results from multiple different search engines together.
Both are important. If you use SearXNG but only enable Google, it's essentially just a proxy for Google and you miss out on most of the value of it. Some of the other search engines may have better results for some searches than Google does.
Any recommendations on how to get started with that? I've been using it but without digging through a frankly intimidating list of configuration options, I'm not feeling like it's really adding much value yet
No, SearXNG is great
Thanks
Mojeek too.
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AI controlling our lives with no humans to plead your case to is like something out of Black Mirror. I am not looking forward to this bleak dystopian future.
That said, all it has to do is a better job at controlling our lives than the humans currently running everything are doing, and the lowness of that bar serves as a pretty accurate marker for the exact center of the Earth's core.
A human can at least spot an obvious error and correct it in the system. An AI would just double down and apologize for any inconvenience in a very comforting voice with words statistically proven to lower a customers frustration level.
It's literally a plot point in Elysium.
I find myself thinking about this movie a lot lately...
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?
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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=14 is still unknown??
Remove all ai automatically, without having to add random profanities.
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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
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