Using a swearword in your Google search can stop the AI answer. But should you?

[littlemissmartypants]

Tory Shepherd
Fri 10 Oct 2025 19.00 EDT

Using a swearword in your Google search can stop that annoying AI overview from popping up. Some apps let you switch off their artificial intelligence.

You can choose not to use ChatGPT, to avoid AI-enabled software, to refuse to talk to a chatbot. You can ignore Donald Trump posting deepfakes, and dodge anything with Tilly the AI actor in it.

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Dr Kobi Leins – an AI management and governance expert – chooses to opt out when medical practitioners want to use AI.

She told a specialist she didn’t want AI transcription software used for her child’s appointment but was told it was necessary because the specialist was “time poor” and if she did not want it used she would need to go somewhere else.
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https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/oct/11/using-a-swearword-in-your-google-search-can-stop-the-ai-answer-but-should-you

[Celerity]

1. DU is now at a point where many posters think tossing out AI overviews and/or other AI slop is a good form of posting

This includes actual AI-only entire OPs.

I have zero interest in remaining a member if the board expansively goes to an AI Underground model of interaction.

[Tetrachloride]

2. Good writing is increasing rare. AI is one form and one cause of that.

[hunter]

4. I think I have many of those posters on my ignore list.

I'm probably ignoring some humans who write like they are AI too.

[hunter]

3. If you really don't want google AI answers don't use google.

Artificial Intelligence has pretty much ruined random searches of the internet. I mostly limit my searches now to specific sources and I don't use google.

In past times Google searches would turn up some "rare gems" -- brilliant little web sites, essays, journalism, and science that I might not have noticed otherwise -- but that rarely happens now. The enshitification of the internet is nearly complete. "Surfing" the internet has become a very unpleasant experience. The waves are full of crap.