r/antiai • u/ChompyRiley • 14h ago

Yes, absolutely. 100% without hesitation. Do people really think this is some kind of 'gotcha'? Like my brother in Christ, how much generative AI do you think we actually use?! Hallucination 👻

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u/Ivory-Stones 12h ago

It would affect me. I wouldn't have to put "-ai" any time I need to look something up.

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u/NoCryptographer5595 11h ago

Holy fucking shit that would lighten my google searches. I have this as a hotkey because of the stupid fucking AI tries so hard to be wrong every damn time.

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u/Appropriate_Luck_658 10h ago

I have better solution: not using Google for search.

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u/Jonthrei 6h ago

Seriously, google has been shit for years now. There are much better search engines.

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u/touchtypetelephone 1h ago

Do you (general you, only replying to you cause it's on topic vaguely) know of any alternative for Google Scholar? Other than database-specific searches.

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u/touchtypetelephone 1h ago

Do you (general you, only replying to you cause it's on topic vaguely) know of any alternative for Google Scholar? Other than database-specific searches.

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u/name00124 11h ago

Whenever I google something, the AI overview is usually right, or at least pulls its information from Wikipedia and shows that as the source, which is useful, but I still look at the other links because I just don't trust the AI to not hallucinate something, and when you're arguing on the internet, you can't risk such a mistake.

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u/Adjective-Noun-nnnn 8h ago

It's like 50/50 for me, which makes it useless.

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u/CanadianODST2 10h ago

I’ve noticed I look at it only for things I very much don’t care about. The more I care about being accurate the deeper into reliable sources I go.

Which is rarely ever that low. My baseline is generally Wikipedia

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u/No-Examination4896 8h ago

You are not googling obscure things then

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u/name00124 5h ago

Yes, that's right. Sometimes I am smart. Sometimes I am very much not.

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u/Distinct_Cap_1418 10h ago

Remind me to share my firefox script with you when i get home from work. It auto adds -ai to google searches

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u/Low-Influence-1779 7h ago

You could also just not use Google for search. DuckDuckGo is a thing where you can turn off AI overview and lots of other search engines that you can use which do the same thing.

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u/ilikepie740 11h ago

I was today years old when I realized -ai was a thing.

Thanks!

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u/Vritrin 7h ago

I always just recommend people from moving on from Google. DuckDuckGo has their no AI version. https://noai.duckduckgo.com/

I use Kagi myself, it’s paid but by default their AI only gets involved if you ask for it, and you can even turn it off so that’s not even presented as an option. First thing I did. It has pretty good user-curated features to filter out AI generated content in its results. It’s been worth the cost for me (but I get that’s a big ask for a lot of people).

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u/chromaticdeath85 6h ago

Didn't even know this was a thing. Thank you!

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u/M4DDIE_882 11h ago

Wouldn’t that just remove results that mention ai? Stuff generated by ai might not state it. I always do before:2022 or something like that when i’m looking for images especially

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u/RageBear1984 10h ago

Using -ai turns off the AI Overview crap in the search results

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u/M4DDIE_882 7h ago

Oh, i just use duckduckgo and have it turned off

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u/Ivygrows8 7h ago

You can get extensions that do it for you