Social Victory (for now) against Google AI Overview

[wwkirk]

OK, I'm not an AI hater (though I confess I don't respect it). So, if a situation arises where I want AI, I'll certainly use it. But what I do hate is having it foisted upon me when I don't want it.

Apparently, there's no "intra-Google" way to turn off AI Overviews. Fortunately Firefox has a third party add-on which so far is keeping the dragon at bay: AI Overview Hider for Google


Again, I'm not an anti-AI fanatic. Recently, it proved to be my best option to finding out what the Latin expression culmen et fons means.

 

[Kung Fu Kowboy]

 

[Streeter]

If at a basic level AI is fine. But you create an intelligence that can grow exponentially infinity smarter than humans - i dont see that going great for us.

 

[wwkirk]

Putting it plainly, I'm a convert now. I used to have hate, albeit mild, towards AI. Now I actually like it a little.

Upon mature reflection, if I may so congratulate myself,
I've decided that AI is just the current implementation of the "help tools" that have been part of personal computing "since forever". (Recall Clippy.) It's just so much more wide-ranging that for a while I regarded it as intrusive. Now, my approach is just to ignore AI when I have no use for it.

The tip-over to appreciation came earlier today when AI supplied a concise explanation of Pickwickian, with special reference to G.E. Moore's use of the term. - No way I can continue hating on AI after that.

 

[HUGHPHUG]

Google AI is terrible and pretty much always wrong. It assumes and then gives incorrect info, I never read it