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Add "fucking" to your Google searches to neutralize AI summaries


Google will probably close this loophole soon enough.

If you are tired of Google’s AI-powered search results leading you astray with poor information from bad sources, there is some good news. If you instead search, “How large is the fucking student body at Yale University?” you will instead get a standard list of blue link results, sans-AI summary. But AI summaries present users with a prominent blurb at the top of their search that looks authoritative when it just risks compounding the misinformation problem with more erroneous slop.

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