June 16 2025

No, absolutely not. If you’re an admin for any groups, this feature can be turned off in the group settings. While I’m at it, if you don’t want AI results when searching on Google, just type -ai at the end of your search phrase. For example, what is critical thinking -ai … ✊✊✊

It’s way past out of hand. Along with hundreds of other author’s books, my first book was pirated and used my META to train AI. In addition to stealing copyrighted materials, it’s devastating for the environment, it kills critical thinking, and blurs the line between truth and fiction. It really could be the end of us.

I figured out how to remove the AI results without having to use the -ai. This way you only get web results, like it used to be. The AI results are there, but those results have their own tab. Google does not want you completely turning the feature off, so there’s no way (that I can find) to do it. Here’s a video explainer for what I did (not created by me) and a screenshot of how my searches look now.