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  • Re: Writing with LLMs

    From Dumas Walker@21:1/175 to POINDEXTER FORTRAN on Sun Sep 21 10:09:33 2025
    Chances are that AI "stole" that answer from a web search.

    I would hate to have a business run on Google ad revenue, they're
    scraping and providing AI answers, then sponsored links, then the actual
    link you were looking for.

    Yeah, there is a joke meme out there somewhere that came out after they
    first started doing that. Something about the first several answers being
    AI things that could get you killed, with the actual info showing up several answers down. Any more, I do skim the first few answers, but I always keep going until I (hopefully) find the actual links that the AI answers were scraped from.

    IIRC, there is/was a way to tell it not to give you an AI answer when you search, but I haven't used it enough to remember the exact format.


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  • From Bob Worm@21:1/205 to Dumas Walker on Sun Sep 21 23:31:34 2025
    Re: Re: Writing with LLMs
    By: Dumas Walker to POINDEXTER FORTRAN on Sun Sep 21 2025 10:09:33

    Hi, Dumas.

    IIRC, there is/was a way to tell it not to give you an AI answer when you search, but I haven't used it enough to remember the exact format.

    There is a proper way to do that (something obscure like h=14?) which I can never remember, however it's very easy to remember the alternative method which is to just swear in your query.

    I didn't believe it at first but, sure enough, it works - you get your f-ing search results with no sh-y AI. Supposedly they didn't fancy having news articles written about how Google's AI helped a kid find smut or whatever so if your query is a bit risque then it turns off the AI.

    I'm sure if someone reviewed my search history they would think "wow, this guy's angry", shortly followed by "wow, this guy's boring" :)

    Now I need to find a way to get rid of the ads / sponsored listings...

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  • From Dumas Walker@21:1/175 to BOB WORM on Mon Sep 22 10:46:45 2025
    There is a proper way to do that (something obscure like h=14?) which I can never remember, however it's very easy to remember the alternative method whic
    is to just swear in your query.

    LOL that is something I'd have never thought of doing!

    Now I need to find a way to get rid of the ads / sponsored listings...

    I bet that is a lot more difficult than just swearing in your query. ;)


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