Y'all.
I just successfully got Google to stop showing me its "AI Overview." I don't know how long this will last, but here's what I did.
First I repeatedly entered all-caps diatribes laced with obscenities about how nobody wants AI into the search field. Five or six times of that, and...
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I just successfully got Google to stop showing me its "AI Overview." I don't know how long this will last, but here's what I did.
First I repeatedly entered all-caps diatribes laced with obscenities about how nobody wants AI into the search field. Five or six times of that, and...
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Then I searched for "NEVER SHOW ME THE AI OVERVIEW AGAIN, GOOGLE."
Poof! Gone. I've done a few more searches and it's still not there. Worth a try!
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You're welcome in advance if I just saved the world from AI.
Shortly after the "don't show it to anybody" request, AI Overview was back, and I couldn't get it to disable itself again by telling it now to. I flew too close to the sun, I guess.
So I asked it to wait until the year 2095 before showing it to me again. That seems to have worked.