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dmarti@federate.social

Don Marti

Which if any have you done in order to reduce the amount of "AI" generated material in search results?

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mcc@mastodon.social

mcc

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@dmarti for a while i had my "default search engine" set to udm14, but it just wasn't enough, i'm now using kagi which allows me to hide the ai options completely and hide ai images from image search.

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kevinriggle@ioc.exchange

Kevin Riggle

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@mcc @dmarti very big ups for Kagi.

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mcc@mastodon.social

mcc

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@kevinriggle @dmarti well, not to give them more credit than they deserve, they're still an AI company, hiding the AI requires at least some understanding of CSS and it doesn't help with the mobile app, there's no way to opt out of buying AI credits with your subscription, and I had been a paying user less than 48 hours when I first got into an argument with the CEO of the company about AI (he's for it)

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kevinriggle@ioc.exchange

Kevin Riggle

Reply to @mcc@mastodon.social

@mcc @dmarti true, though I have found it sufficiently easy to ignore all of their generative AI stuff without any CSS hacking that I forget they have it

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kevinriggle@ioc.exchange

Kevin Riggle

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@mcc @dmarti and I would pay the same price for the service with or without some genAI credits that I'm not going to use.

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mcc@mastodon.social

mcc

Reply to @kevinriggle@ioc.exchange

@kevinriggle @dmarti yes, but if i could avoid it, i would never give money to a company which also has a genAI product

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dmarti@federate.social

Don Marti

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@ansuz Thank you, will try some of these. My approach is more try to get the old Google back (just removing AI Overviews doesn't do it, because a lot of slop over-SEOed sites do too well now...in order to get decent results you also have to start block-listing those) https://blog.zgp.org/fix-google-search/

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corbet

Jonathan Corbet

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@ansuz @dmarti An interesting list, but the absence of Kagi is a rather glaring hole ... I switched over a while ago and have not been even mildly tempted to look back.
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