Not that we in the library wish to encourage profanity, but if you want to get rid of these AI-search summaries (which are often absolute nonsense), just swear in your search terms. It really works.
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mar 20, 2025, 10:07 am • 0 0 • view
Or: use @ecosiasearch.bsky.social !
mar 22, 2025, 9:04 am • 4 0 • view
I knew it! I knew it! I’ve always fucking known it!
mar 19, 2025, 10:25 pm • 3 1 • view
@foqueiroz.bsky.social you’d like this :)
mar 22, 2025, 9:13 am • 3 0 • view
That's brilliant! Should I add profanity to my manuscripts too, hoping AI won't canibalise them? Who knew LLMs could be so prude!
mar 22, 2025, 6:17 pm • 3 0 • view
make a deal with you get your university's PR dept to put a link to the paper, when the PR dept issues a press release about some research honestly, there are PR depts that don't include a link, or include a text DOI or, if the study is embargoed/not released, explicitly say so !!
mar 19, 2025, 4:12 pm • 1 0 • view
I'm fairly sure just putting -AI at end has been helping me get classic results. I don't want my mum to bring out the swear box again especially since bloody was not permissible for a long time so anything stronger is very much tutted at.
mar 19, 2025, 10:45 pm • 5 1 • view
there's also a little trick with the url that can get rid of the AI result! ive made my default search engine google with the modified url, so no AI result! arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024...
mar 19, 2025, 11:02 pm • 10 4 • view
I usually just add "-ai" to the end of my search terms and voilà
mar 22, 2025, 6:19 pm • 1 0 • view
You have made my bloody day!
mar 20, 2025, 9:38 am • 6 0 • view
mar 24, 2025, 9:38 am • 2 0 • view
(The interesting thing is that *where* you put the swearword influences the results, for reasons even we - information professionals and absolute legends - don't really understand.)
mar 19, 2025, 12:19 pm • 82 8 • view
Send us the versions you've tried for expletive positions that work and don't work and we'll see what we can do
mar 22, 2025, 9:03 am • 8 0 • view
You are doing the Lord’s work 🙏
mar 19, 2025, 2:27 pm • 15 2 • view
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mar 19, 2025, 3:46 pm • 2 1 • view
this is life-enhancing knowledge
mar 19, 2025, 2:29 pm • 5 1 • view
Alternately, you can avoid AI search summaries using udm14.com
apr 6, 2025, 1:56 pm • 3 1 • view
Thanks! 📌
apr 20, 2025, 9:27 am • 0 0 • view
Thank f*cking you. Or: F*cking thank you.
mar 19, 2025, 2:53 pm • 8 0 • view
So talk to it like a colleague?
mar 19, 2025, 9:50 pm • 2 0 • view
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mar 24, 2025, 9:39 am • 0 0 • view
If you use this custom string as your search engine in Chrome settings, you get classic search results without the "AI" summary. "https://www.google.com/search?q=%s&udm=14"
mar 19, 2025, 9:52 pm • 1 2 • view
Swearing is much more fun though!
mar 19, 2025, 10:15 pm • 4 0 • view
I got smarter today, thanks to a library.
mar 19, 2025, 9:50 pm • 11 2 • view
I don't have the skills to write a chrome plugin that drops C bombs into every search term, but I live in hope
mar 19, 2025, 9:52 pm • 2 1 • view
Wow, that's quite a difference in results! But also, just imagining the state of frustration you were in when you hit upon the discovery 😂
mar 19, 2025, 10:54 pm • 5 1 • view
Or you can just put -AI or install the chrome extension that does it.
mar 19, 2025, 11:09 pm • 1 0 • view