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AI power and water use is through the roof, and 80–90% is each query (pivot-to-ai.com)

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[–] sailor_sega_saturn@awful.systems 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I had been using a CSS rule to hide the AI overviews on Google.

Because of this news I just installed a Firefox extension to force Google search results to use the "web" tab (which presumably skips generating them entirely).

[–] HedyL@awful.systems 1 points 44 minutes ago

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".