AndrewM: This way they can claim that they gave users the option, but almost no one used it, everyone must really love AI! 🥰 So please do use udm14.com and tell your friends about it. You can also go to tenbluelinks.org to make your Google searches default to the no-AI version.

@NBCNews: Social media has been buzzing with examples of Google’s new, “experimental” AI tool going awry. A Google spokesperson said the company believes users are deliberately attempting to trip up the technology with uncommon questions. https://t.co/Wj9iuKzzHk

I hope this forces them to give user option to turn it off.

They did, it's just not terribly well known. You have to add &udm=14 to the end of your search URL. Or just do your searches from here: udm14.com

&udm=14 | the disenshittification Konami codeudm14.com A quick way to get an AI-free search without any extra work.

That's one of the least user-friendly options I've seen from a multi-billion dollar conglomerate.

This way they can claim that they gave users the option, but almost no one used it, everyone must really love AI! 🥰 So please do use udm14.com and tell your friends about it. You can also go to tenbluelinks.org to make your Google searches default to the no-AI version.

How to Turn Off Google AI Overview and Set "Web" as Defaulttenbluelinks.org

I just used the instructions here to add the UMD-14 to a search in my browser. it's basically add a new search and make this the url: {google:baseURL}/search?udm=14&q=%s

Bye Bye, AI: How to turn off Google's annoying AI overviews and just get search resultswww.tomshardware.com You can configure your browser to return only web page results.

I tried it and got the same AI-laden and sidebar-happy results I got from starting at Google.com.

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