Kevin Gannon: None of us wanted this shit, but Google execs are a bunch of credulous toddlers enraptured by the latest shiny toy, so here we are, being told to rub castor oil in our cat's eyes

None of us wanted this shit, but Google execs are a bunch of credulous toddlers enraptured by the latest shiny toy, so here we are, being told to rub castor oil in our cat's eyes

Google's AI recommends rubbing castor oil in your cat's eyes to treat cataracts and glaucoma. I doubt that feeding castor oil to your cat will help with digestion and nutrient absorption. Castor oil causes explosive diarrhea.

Someone needs to publish a collection of screenshots like this one (the glue in the pizza dough, all that stuff)

Honestly a little digest called "Shit my AI Said" would've been the sort of thing to sell millions at checkout counters 25 years ago

This is why I switched to DuckDuckGo. It's not great (or even all that good), but the real results are as good as Google, and all the fake-AI bullshit is completely disable-able.

Yeah, I use it too. It's the only usable search engine at this point, since Google has degraded so much, even beyond the AI mess

There’s this project now too, for an AI-free google search udm14.com

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

Neat! Good to know the "Web" tab is the way to go! Thanks!

Made it my default search engine in chrome :-)

Nice! Not having all that AI crap crowding out results is something

I use duckduckgo.

DuckDuckGo is my default. Not as good, esp. for news, but agreed it still beats Google these days.

Exactly bsky.app/profile/mari...

How to turn off DuckDuckGo AI Features duckduckgo.com/settings#aif... How to get plain google results without AI bsky.app/profile/inte... www.tomsguide.com/ai/how-to-bl...

How to block Google AI Overviews from appearing in your search resultswww.tomsguide.com And no, it doesn't require a Chrome extension

Asked google a health-related question last night and caught myself reading the AI answer instead of scrolling down to a valid medical source. It's like a muscle you have to strengthen.

Someone is going to lose an eye trying this, and it won’t be the cat.

From the very good Cleveland Clinic, trying to debunk some castor oil claims regarding human health benefits (essentially, none) health.clevelandclinic.org/castor-oil-b...

I’m not sure they believe their own hype. Maybe they just want another multi-year scam to make money from?

Could be a bit of both. I do think these people are true believers in this myth of One Tool To Rule Them All, and of course they're the only ones visionary enough to bring it to the masses. And if they boost their bottom line in the process, well, that's the just desserts for being so smart

This explains why I’ll never be in the C suite

Google AI and "The Castor Oil Challenge"

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