I am sorry to bother, but as a card-carrying Luddite, I need to know (since it just popped up yesterday)

[Evolve Dammit]

how to get rid of "Google AI mode" which apparently (to me) has no way to delete it.
AI is...... gettinng scary. Google controls 90% is what I heard yesterday on MSNBC or C-Span? I can't keep up with the firehose of fresh hell every day.
I know some DU'er knows the answer to my silly ass question and I appreciate any info/ reccs you have
Thanks.
ED

[SheltieLover]

1. Highplainsdem just posted on this today - how to turn the slop off

[Evolve Dammit]

8. Thank you!

[SheltieLover]

11. YW!

Were you able to find the post? If not, I can try to help.

[Evolve Dammit]

14. Thanks! I did. Much appreciated

[SheltieLover]

16. Yw. I detest ai slop, too!

[Tetrachloride]

2. In which part of your computer (or tablet or phone) is the AI ? Browser or a general thing ?

1. What is your device ?
2. What app is infiltrated ?

[Scrivener7]

3. Change to DuckDuckGo!

[Ms. Toad]

4. I tried to do it earlier and it didn't work -

But your query prompted me to try again:

https://www.androidauthority.com/how-to-turn-off-ai-overviews-google-3445771/

It seems to have worked.

[Evolve Dammit]

7. Thanks!

[markodochartaigh]

5. I get these AI overviews on my phone browser.

I can read the first paragraph or so without clicking on anything. I keep it just to see how frequently it displays obviously false information.

[ProfessorGAC]

13. I Can't Tell You The Number Of Times...

...I've compared the AI overview to Wikipedia and found it to be a direct lift.
Many, many times AI appears to merely be very good at looking things up very quickly.
It doesn't "know" the stuff, it's just fast at finding it.

[hunter]

6. What is this? I've never seen any of that on my devices.

Probably because I'm an actual internet Luddite.

I have an ancient 4GLTE flip phone. On my computers I surf the internet like it's 1998. There's no Android, Apple, or Microsoft in my personal universe. It's all Linux.

Anything on the internet that annoys me, which would include google AI assistance if I ever stumbled upon it, I blacklist.

I can't say I'm enthusiastic about Duckduckgo except that it can still be tamed. When that's no longer the case I'll move on.

[Evolve Dammit]

9. How do you blacklist? Sounds good!

[hunter]

10. Mostly uBlock Origin with a right click.

https://ublockorigin.com/

Sadly recent versions of google chrome broke that so I've retreated to firefox.

I don't have to worry about "smart phone" stuff because I haven't got one.

If I'm really, really, really annoyed I'll pull a hammer out of my Linux toolbox and blacklist entire domains from my internet.

[Evolve Dammit]

15. Thanks. I'm running out of bandwidth with all this relentless crap!

[Evolve Dammit]

17. I don't know what we can do. Tsunami of absolute AI BS. And most companies are utilizing it. Rage Against the Machine?

[blue_jay]

12. I second the Duckduckgo, have also considered Brave but not tried as of yet...nt