Virginia S. O'Possum: There needs to be a way to opt out before your search begins.

Google's AI Overviews must create entirely new information in response to a search query. That costs an estimated *30 times* more energy than simply extracting information from a source through a traditional search. 🧪 www.scientificamerican.com/article/what... by @parshallison.bsky.social

What Do Google’s AI Answers Cost the Environment?www.scientificamerican.com Google is bringing AI answers to a billion people this year, but generative AI requires much more energy than traditional keyword searches

Takes a lot more energy to come up with a result like "put glue in your pizza" than to just find and report popular pizza recipes.

There needs to be a way to opt out before your search begins.

There is! bsky.app/profile/udm1...

bsky.app

Even if it’s way too complicated imo

I made a bookmark on one of my browsers that I can click to bring up a Google search page with the extra string preloaded; since I default to DuckDuckGo search, that's also what I do for Google and Wikipedia searches and Google Translate.

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