cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/44525355

This is only the beginning

Google steals people's content through AI summaries, trains off their work and now is looking to rewrite their articles

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[–] 7 points 6 months ago*

Y'all do know Kagi is literally using AI to rewrite the news, right? Not only the headline, the entire body too. https://news.kagi.com/world/latest

If you think Kagi of all places is gonna be safe from AI, think again. They are all in on the AI hype train. They might not be selling your data (yet), but best believe you're paying them to train their AI.

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

    I still sometimes need to use Google’s search engine, but the new default β€œAI Mode” is bullshit, so I use Violentmonkey and this userscript to force it to use the original default, β€œWeb”: https://github.com/ZenithO-o/Fix-Google-Web-Search

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  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Shit like this is completely unusable for laymen.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago*

    It isn't.

    All of us were laymen at one point.

    I still am, for one.

    What I see big apps do is treat users (both power, regular and new ones) as idiots, ruining the experience for everyone. Users should be treated reasonavly as reasonable people. This means giving them the options and opportunity to become power users, as opposed to saying "yeah, that'll never fly with them" and then you're the one to shoot all of them down preemptively.

    Violentmonkey is simple enough to install as an add-on, and clicking "Get a Script" requires no coding background.

    So yeah. Impossible for utter idiots.

    Which users are not.

    They're reasonable people like you and me, and giving them the opportunity to know about Violentmonkey and what it does should be more enough for them to use.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago

    brave search is ok too

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  • [+] -6 points 6 months ago (8 children)

    DuckDuckGo is so frigging bad.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago (4 children)

    noai.duckduckgo.com is great

    and you can add this to firefox based browsers to make it the default search: https://noai.duckduckgo.com/?q=%25s&noai=

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago (2 children)

    I'm very happy with libre wolf, what's good about ddg?

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