points by dan_thinks 5 days ago | 0 comments
From the article, Google AI is deeply integrated with Google Search. So the article is correct - turning off one turns off the other.
From a privacy perspective, having all of this off by default is sensible. But only offering a basic product like Search if you opt into AI (when search as a capability does not need AI to function) - is newsworthy.
[–] skeledrew 5 days ago
[–] rockskon 4 days ago
How the sausage is made is irrelevant when the goal is to get students to research primary sources of which Google AI summaries cannot be.
[–] skeledrew 4 days ago
I remember a time when Wikipedia wasn't allowed as a source. Few years later, no problem.
[–] rockskon 4 days ago
I've never seen Wikipedia accepted as a source. Mostly I've seen the shift to recommending people look at Wikipedia's citations as sources.
[–] skeledrew 4 days ago
I've seen this OK'd in college, though the number of allowed Wikipedia citations was capped.
That means a far less capable search engine. Note that Google search has been AI-powered since before AI became a thing; it's now just more advanced, and particularly, explicitly publicized.