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hunter

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

Reply to littlemissmartypants (Original post)

Sat Oct 11, 2025, 10:44 AM

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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.

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Using a swearword in your Google search can stop the AI answer. But should you? [View all] littlemissmartypants Saturday OP

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 Celerity Saturday #1

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

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

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