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Add "fucking" to your Google searches to neutralize AI summaries

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788 points jsheard | 2 comments | 31 Jan 25 21:20 UTC | HN request time: 0.412s | source
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braza ◴[31 Jan 25 21:52 UTC] No.42892606[source]▶
I work with ML and I am bullish with AI in general; said that, I would pay between 5 to 10 USD a feature or toggle called “No AI” for several services.

For myself I noticed 2 bad effects in my daily usage:

- Search: impossible to reach any original content in the first positions. Almost everything sounds like AIsh. The punctuation, the commas, the semicolon, the narro vocabulary, and the derivative nature of the recent internet pages.

- Discovery: (looking directly to you Spotify and Instagram) here I would add in the “No AI” feature another one “Forget the past…” and then set the time. I personally like to listen some orthogonal genres seasonally. But once that you listen 2 songs in a very spontaneous manner Spotify will recommend that for a long time. I listened out of curiosity some math rock, and the “Discovery Weekly” took 9 weeks to not recommend that anymore.

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PaulDavisThe1st ◴[31 Jan 25 23:11 UTC] No.42893512[source]▶
Can this many people really have missed the udm=14 trick for google? udm14.com will demonstrate for you ...
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1. egypturnash ◴[01 Feb 25 04:11 UTC] No.42895562[source]▶
Imagine you are a completely non-technical friend of yours. They are very smart but they do not know a damn thing about configuring computers. They mostly just use their phone and/or tablet.

How much of "just append ?udm=14 to your search query" is absolute gibberish?

Is "install the udm14 plugin" going to make any more sense?

Is "go to udm14.com for all your searches" going to stick? Are there phishing sites at umd14.com, mdm41.com, uwu44.com, and all the other variants they'll probably misremember it as?

"just search for 'fucking whatever' and the AI crap goes away", on the other hand, is funny, uses a common dictionary word that everyone above the age of five knows how to spell, and is intensely memorable.

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2. PaulDavisThe1st ◴[01 Feb 25 14:49 UTC] No.42898707[source]▶
There's this thing called the internet that can help you find out how to change your default search engine. You might even get some AI suggestions to make it clearer.

Yes, the "fucking" trick is awesome too.