By 2025, I've read that 95% of all search results will be AI generated

[Neapolitan Ice Cream]

What do you think of that? Scary? I'm not sure how I feel. I think that AI has come on in leaps and bounds, but I'm not so sure that it's ready for prime time!

 

[BrianL]

I hate it. I actually set my Google proeference to show me "web results only" as a defualt so I don't have to see the annoying and inaccurate AI generated answer to my question.

 

[fla4fun]

I hate it. I actually set my Google proeference to show me "web results only" as a defualt so I don't have to see the annoying and inaccurate AI generated answer to my question.

Where do I do that? I use Safari on my phone and iPad, and I really want to block the AI stuff when searching. I went through the settings but didn’t see an option to make that change. Thanks!

 

[Smugpugmug]

Okay so 95% of search results will be useless garbage then. If they aren't already.

 

[BrianL]

Where do I do that? I use Safari on my phone and iPad, and I really want to block the AI stuff when searching. I went through the settings but didn’t see an option to make that change. Thanks!

It can be tricky. I did it in Chrome and it affects Google searches only. You can't really turn it off, but what you can do is set the default results tab to "Web" rather than "All". This also suppresses the row of images, videos, the sidebar with shopping, etc. It just lists the websties old-school style. You can always switch to the Images or Video, etc. tabs too.

I used this CNET article to do it:
https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-...taking-over-google-search-how-to-turn-it-off/

It links to a seperate how-to on enabling Web results:
https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-...-1998-look-with-blue-links-using-these-steps/

It could vary for other browsers and search engines. Good luck!

 

[Neapolitan Ice Cream]

It can be tricky. I did it in Chrome and it affects Google searches only. You can't really turn it off, but what you can do is set the default results tab to "Web" rather than "All". This also suppresses the row of images, videos, the sidebar with shopping, etc. It just lists the websties old-school style. You can always switch to the Images or Video, etc. tabs too.

I used this CNET article to do it:
https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-...taking-over-google-search-how-to-turn-it-off/

It links to a seperate how-to on enabling Web results:
https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-...-1998-look-with-blue-links-using-these-steps/

It could vary for other browsers and search engines. Good luck!

Thanks Brian! I never knew you could do that!

 

[BrianL]

Thanks Brian! I never knew you could do that!

I didn't either, but I am pretty much anti- AI, so I looked it up a couple of weeks ago. Amaxingly, you can actually get a similar answer from the Google AI search results.

 

[Neapolitan Ice Cream]

I didn't either, but I am pretty much anti- AI, so I looked it up a couple of weeks ago. Amaxingly, you can actually get a similar answer from the Google AI search results.

Hah!

Various companies have implemented AI on their websites, to varying degrees of success. DPD, the delivery company in the UK, instigated a bespoke AI. Problem was, it started swearing at people, become a Nazi convert and started to call DPD "a sham business", "the worst you can get".

Didn't really work out well for them. Microsoft pulled their AI initially after a similar occurrence.

 

[_19disnA]

AI has become a catch-all and everyone using that phrase seems to have a different definition of exactly what it means. I think tech companies are trying to 'ride the wave' by calling a lot of different things AI hoping it drives up their stock price. Everything running a computer program has NOT suddenly become an example of AI.

Most search engines seem to bury the user controllable options to make it as complicated as possible to make any updates to how it works.