Searching for 'Disregard' Breaks Google AI overviews; Similar command phrases, including "ignore," "quit," "skip," and "stop,"; "look" and "forget" are also prompting chatbot-like responses.

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• schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  IRC prank from the 2000s: if you type /quit playing games with my heart you’ll hear a cool pop song.

  2020s: if you type quit into Google it will understand this as an AI prompt.

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• lvxferre@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  There’s an extension called Disable AI that gets rid of those intrusive Google Search AI “replies”. I strongly recommend people to use it, because… seriously, they are convincing but misleading trash.

  The two phonemic transcriptions of “disregard” in the first picture are a prime example of that. I could go on a full rant about it, but to keep it short: compare them with the ones provided by Wiktionary, and play “spot the differences”. (Bonus points if you also play “spot the undeclared assumptions”.)

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  • samwise_gamgee@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    There’s also noai.duckduckgo.com

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    • lvxferre@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      You can also change it in the settings. Look for “search assist”; values are “never”, “on demand”, “sometimes”, and “often”.

      But yeah, to be frank I use mostly DDG nowadays, I focused on Google due to the OP.

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• cronenthal@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Well of course, how else would a chatbot react? Do people really “use” this, intentionally?

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  • DdCno1@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Google claims they do. During their last presentation, they boasted about billions of users of their AI. The sheer gall of these people!

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  • lath@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Yes, default users “use” this because it’s helpful, until it’s not.

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• TehPers@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  FYI when I tried Kagi’s Quick Answer out of curiosity, even that gave me a dictionary definition for “disregard”. That being the case, I’d trust it about as much as I trust Google’s AI overviews (which is to mean “not at all”). It just doesn’t show up for me unless I prompt it.

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  • XLE@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    FWIW just searching Kagi (the way someone searched Google here) yields a dictionary definition “provided by WordsAPI”. So it’s actually

    • trustworthy
    • predictable
    • fast
    • energy-efficient

    You can’t say any of those things about AI.

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    • TehPers@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Normally, yes. That always seems to be one of the results.

      I specifically forced it to do a quick answer, and it still gave me a definition. Interestingly, for “disregard”, it also covered a bit about the Google nonsense results after defining the word.

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• reksas@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  i dont understand why go through so many hoops just to use shitty search engine, is using google really worth that?

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  • schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    It just has more of the web in its index than competitors do, so there are good practical reasons on occasion.

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• Klear@piefed.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  None of these are working for me, except maybe skip which just displays results without the AI box.

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