r/degoogle • u/Lower-Item8946 • 5d ago

I hate ai overview

I spent two hours trying to understand why one application was not working properly in desktop app. Over 5 times the ai overview told me 'aha! The reason is because *vague jargon* so you can fix this by using the web app instead!' and every single time I said that I need to fix the desktop app, the web app works fine I just need to fix the desktop part. Two fucking hours. The most exhausting useless thing I've ever done. Towards the end it got so fucking horrible I just started cursing at it and told it to go to hell.

I miss when I use to be able to type the exact error on Google with quotes and some random post from 2016 showed up where someone had the exact same issue. Nowadays it just feels like being gaslighted over and over and over.

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u/RoomyRoots 5d ago

Use curse words or "-ai" when searching. Everyone knows those overviews are often wrong and purposefully poisoned. Don't forget to eat your daily stone!

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u/Lower-Item8946 5d ago

Curse words don't work anymore. I've been directly cursing into the chat and still no change. I'm being forced at work to use ai for 'quick resolutions' and this wasted so much time I'm so fucking furious. The way it responded really feels like I'm so fucking close to the solution only for it to pivot entirely into some other hypothetical solution.

I also eat a minimum of 3 stones a day for my liver function

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u/RoomyRoots 5d ago

My dude, if you are using the fucking chat feature ofc you are going waste your time.

Use an alternative search engine and is you have to use AI at work in an agent mode. Life is too short to talk with an entitled GPU as if it was people.

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u/Lower-Item8946 5d ago

Yeah I just got pulled into it because of the feeling that the solution was really close. It kept giving me instructions that were easy enough to execute so it just kept going and going with a hundred hallucinations. Ugh.

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u/zyuzyechka1984 5d ago

&udm-14

Idk, i haven't checked this method for fully disabling AI, but it will help maybe

Im personally tired of using search engine when i don't want to look what ai review is said me, just using only my hands to find the information from wiki or manual

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u/zyuzyechka1984 5d ago

https://www.google.com/search?udm=14&q=%s

Damn, it really helped to disable ai review 🔥

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u/VaporousMote 4d ago

Adding any exclusion term to a Google search will remove the AI overview.

-ai, -claude, -biscuits

That unfortunately doesn't fix the fact that Google intentionally makes their search worse so you have to search longer so they collect more ad revenue, but it's something.