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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 4 days 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 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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".

[–] sailor_sega_saturn@awful.systems 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

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.

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 7 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Pretty good news tbh. That means that the power demand is driven by users, and we can influence it a little bit, and not just by repeatedly training new models over and over because somebody left a new comment somewhere. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKQJXJOVGE4