[HN Gopher] Bye Bye, AI: How to block Google's AI overviews and ...
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Bye Bye, AI: How to block Google's AI overviews and just get search
results
Author : adamcarson
Score : 29 points
Date : 2024-05-16 20:22 UTC (2 hours ago)
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| taylodl wrote:
| Now that there's a technology threatening the continued existence
| of developers, we're seeing a backlash here on HN and elsewhere.
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| Fascinating, but all too expected.
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| Just remember how you feel now when working on projects putting
| _other people_ out of work and consider the ramifications of what
| you 're doing. What's that you say? You're just streamlining
| processes and cutting waste? Hate to inform you, some of that
| "waste" you're cutting are human beings needing a job.
|
| Hey, I do it too. But we have to recognize that as we go further
| down this road this whole notion of removing all social safety
| nets, if you don't have a job then just go off and die mentality
| that we have _has_ to shift. We can either be smart and figure
| out how to make this transition peacefully, or we can be stupid
| and endure a violent revolution that 's going to wipe out the
| value of our capital assets, and in general wreak havoc in our
| lives. Many of us here on HN have a lot to lose in this scenario.
|
| Our choice.
|
| I suggest we choose wisely.
| apantel wrote:
| That's not what this is about at all. This is about opting out
| of a bad GenAI experience that gets in the way of you finding
| the information you're looking for.
| taylodl wrote:
| This is just one article out of many that I've noticed here
| on HN over the past few weeks that are very anti-AI. As such,
| I have a sneaky suspicion that what I wrote is _exactly_ what
| this backlash is about.
| JohnFen wrote:
| I have really huge reservations about LLMs, but a fear that
| they will replace me as a dev is certainly not one of them.
|
| And while I can't speak for anybody but myself, I have
| never heard a dev I personally know express any real
| concern that they're going to be replaced by "AI". The ones
| who express professional concerns are mostly worried that
| AI is going to remove the aspects of software development
| that they enjoy.
| jasonjmcghee wrote:
| Not sure this is what is going on here. Most developers I know
| don't feel threatened by LLMs.
|
| From the opening paragraph of the article.
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| > incorrect AI summaries above its search results. ...the AI
| may tell you to drink urine to get rid of kidney stones, and
| you'll have to scroll past that "advice" to find links to
| articles from human doctors.
|
| Pretty sure that's what it's about.
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| The number of ads you need to scroll through is bad enough.
|
| ---
|
| "best" also disagrees
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| https://news.ycombinator.com/best
| Imnimo wrote:
| I don't understand how you think AI overviews threaten the
| existence of developers.
| thegrim33 wrote:
| You don't seem self consistent in your beliefs. Not even an
| hour ago you commented on a thread that self-driving vehicles
| will not exist any time in the near future, and yet here you're
| proposing that "ai" is going to replace developers soon?
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| You believe that "ai" will be capable of the logical gymnastics
| that development requires, to replace developers, but that the
| same level of "ai" isn't anywhere near capable of taking in
| camera/sensor input and outputting proper accelerate/turn
| outputs in order to drive a vehicle?
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| In my mind the self-driving case is an easier, special case,
| subset of the task of general programming.
| mateus1 wrote:
| The summary product is a gimmick, takes too long and it's being
| force fed to users.
|
| People wouldn't complain if it was useful.
| mcswell wrote:
| A better criterion, I think, is if it's consistently correct.
| I know, if it isn't consistently correct, it won't be useful;
| but it's easier to measure "correct" than "useful."
|
| (And correct with respect to what is generally known. If
| there had been a pre-Einstein's Theory of General Relativity,
| "correct" would have been "conforms to Newton's theory of
| gravity.")
| elicksaur wrote:
| Kind of ironic the author is complaining about the quality of
| google search results when this website seems to be almost
| unusable to me on mobile due to whole-page, in-line and overlay
| ads.
| lionkor wrote:
| Slightly offtopic but it was very easy to turn off the duckduckgo
| ai results, it was one toggle
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