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In the past few years, companies you use daily have found many opportunities to volunteer you for features you didn’t ask for — and, as of late, it feels like they’re almost always AI features you didn’t ask for. That’s not always a bad thing! Sometimes new tech includes features that are really innovative and useful. But sometimes you just want a service to work the way it did before — such as your trusty, reliable search engine prior to the introduction ofLuckily, some folks on the internet have found reliable workarounds to purge your search results of unwanted AI influence. Here’s how to circumvent the overview:One method to avoid AI results — that won’t entirely rule them out from all of your searches — is to add “-AI” or “-ai” at the end of your search. This approach is similar to other ways you can augment your search results . It’s a simple action to rule out AI overview results without doing much or making the change permanent. So, for example, if you’re looking for information on norovirus, you could search “norovirus symptoms -ai” to get results without the overview.late last year, lets you more efficiently cut the overviews from the results of your daily searches, ensuring you’re only seeing the AI overview when you want to see it. First, go to your Chrome browser’s Settings and select “Search Engine” or go to chrome://settings/searchEngines in your search box.Adding this"AI Free Web" option to your search engine settings and making it the default can give you back your old search engine functionality.You’ll now see AI Free Web in the list of search engines, clicking the three stacked dots to the right of it will give you the option to “Make Default.” You can make this same AI Free Web change to FireFox as well by adding that same information after going toAnd then you’re done — and your search results should now filter out any AI results you might not want to see. Unfortunately, there aren’t many simple workarounds of this kind supported for mobile just yet.There are plenty of reasons you might not want the AI overview results taking over your searches. By now, you’ve had time to develop your own opinions about AI overviews — some people find them useful for a quick, at-a-glance answer to a low-stakes query like “who is that one blond guy from ‘Buffy’?” and others are irritated by dubious sourcing and unnecessary errors.And sometimes the incorrect answers from AI could lead to dangerous results: “For example, when searching for medical advice, the AI might generate even potentially dangerous results, like the infamous case of an AI Overviewshe has concerns about the “opaque” nature of the service — there’s a lot that is still experimental about these features and a lot that we don’t know about how information is weighted or sources are identified. This opens up a lot of questions from experts and users alike, Schmitter noted: “What happens if the AI summary ― which may or may not be responsive to sponsored search results ― doesn’t match the information that I’m seeing in the search results? Why is it different? What is right and what is wrong? Because these tools are entirely opaque, we have no way of knowing, which means the AI ‘feature’ adds no value.”AI overviewsRealness delivered to your inbox By entering your email and clicking Sign Up, you're agreeing to let us send you customized marketing messages about us and our advertising partners. You are also agreeing to our
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