There’s been a lot of discourse lately from AI boosters making excuses for AI’s ghastly power consumption. The reason you’re seeing these excuses now is because even the mainstream media is writing…
By the way, is there a DuckDuckGo bang for Google “udm=14” (“web” tab) yet? I have been looking for something like this for awhile, but no success so far. It’s very frustrating to receive these AI generated answers even when using “!g”.
The extension I ended up using for Firefox was Straight to the Web. Auditing the source code I saw that it looked for certain Google URL patterns being navigated to and re-wrote them.
I just tested with DuckDuckGo’s “!g” feature and it seemed to work, but I don’t use DDG so I don’t know if there’s anything I’m missing.
By the way, is there a DuckDuckGo bang for Google “udm=14” (“web” tab) yet? I have been looking for something like this for awhile, but no success so far. It’s very frustrating to receive these AI generated answers even when using “!g”.
The extension I ended up using for Firefox was Straight to the Web. Auditing the source code I saw that it looked for certain Google URL patterns being navigated to and re-wrote them.
I just tested with DuckDuckGo’s “!g” feature and it seemed to work, but I don’t use DDG so I don’t know if there’s anything I’m missing.