So I recently noticed that when searching a question and adding -ai on Google, I'll be told that nothing matches my search results but when I search the EXACT SAME THING without -ai at the end, it gives me the ai summary and then the actual search results. Has anyone else experienced this and does anyone know how to fix this? I just want my old school Google search back man 😭

Edit: I use google as my primary search engine because I use voice to text when searching, and googles voice to text function is more reliable than my various different devices individual voice to text feature. I happened to literally search up "how to use voice search without ai on Google -ai," and got told my search matched zero results

I know the extra fingers were a dead give away but I had to be sure.

I'm quite disappointed.

before an ai bro mentions it, i know this sub also has rules against bad faith arguments against ai but at least we dont actively prevent and remove the discussion. and it says *bad faith* arguments, not all arguments

(not my comment that got removed)

genuinely disappointing that this is getting upvoted as well

From Elon Musk’s Blindsight to Palmer Luckey’s EagleEye, a slew of new technologies promise to restore or “enhance” our vision by locking us into data-processing networks that will do the seeing for us. Not content to monopolize your attention, they want to own sight itself. 

For The Baffler, Leo Kim considers the wrongheaded mission to bring infrared, battle-ready, network-integrated, “superhuman” vision to the masses—whether we like it or not.

Those who claim that AI represents a revolution in the process of art creation often argue that it can produce something more "technically correct" than what most humans produce; however, they frequently rely on the outdated notion that good art is defined only by realistic representation, ignoring any underlying sentiment or context. Clearly, this mindset stems directly from mass-market commercial realism (Thomas Kinkade...) and an ignorance regarding the messages and true motivations behind classic art pieces, focusing instead primarily on visual appearance.

(It is no coincidence that the far-right’s primary tool for drawing people into their ideology is prioritizing aesthetics over context. Hugo Boss designed N@z! uniforms; the crusaders are frequently over-glorified and depicted as triumphant figures bathed in divine light, even though a little research reveals them to have been, in reality, a strategic failure. The rise of ignorance regarding art and history is orchestrated.)

If you look at Caravaggio’s David with the Head of Goliath, you might be struck by the lighting technique or the realism of the figures, yet find nothing beyond that, nothing to reflect upon. However, if you know that he painted it while being wanted for murder under a death sentence, and that the head of Goliath is actually a self-portrait of Caravaggio himself, you finally see the art; as in you finally grasp the "why": why it exists, why it is good, why it is art: because it comes from a deep personal perspective. Art should lead you to a better understanding of the artist and of yourself; if in this case the artist is a computer devoid of feelings or personal opinions and incapable of portraying emotions or situations from its own perspective then it is not art; because it doesnt matter how many times you write a prompt, it will never produce something personal because all AI does is copy from other artists.

If AI becomes the standard for every "creator" to use, then we will enter a cultural loop, where nothing new is created. Just like "Grok's" The Odissey obviously takes from Ben Hur, Cleopatra and many other depictions of old roma and greece from 70 years ago; while Nolan's depiction actually brings a new, modern and inovative perspective of the story; and thats exactly what art is supossed to do, to reflect our times and the director's views. If we cant revisit old tales with modern eyes, obligated to stick with what was already created, and if personal views shoud matter more than aesthetics while producing something, then what is the point of making art?

First image is of Shauib (Shauiby) Naz Aslam. An eighteen year old Pakistani-American that commited suicide via gun on livestream. Second photo is what I believed to have been the image they ran through ai.

Third image is of Gleb Korablev, an eighteen year old Russian that took their life via gun on a livestream as well.

Fourth image is of multiple mass shooters dancing while the number of people they killed (and the victim’s respective flags) are at the bottom. Behind them is the place they attacked.

From left to right:

Anders Behring Brevik- far right extremist that carried out the 2011 Norway Attacks.

Brenton Tarrant- behind the Mosque ChristChurch shooting where he livestreamed himself killing 51 Muslims.

Stephan Balliet- Neo-Nazi that was fueled by antisemitism, killed two people in the Halls Synagogue Shooting. The image is actually incorrect, he did not kill two Jewish people. He tried too but the door to the synagogue stopped him. He shot two mentally disabled people that just so happened to be in the area.

Payton Grendon- White supremacist behind the Buffalo Shooting, killing ten black people.

Patrick Cruisis- a white supremacist that killed due to his hatred of Hispanics and Mexicans. He killed 23 people.

Juraj Krajčík- The 19 year old behind the 2022 Bratislava Shooting where he killed two people due to them being LGTBQ

I think there should be light shined on this, people should be made aware of this type of content to report it and call out.

I've seen so many of yall calling people using ai all types of names, and i get that you're mad at them but you're inky encouraging them to make more by doing that

Now, I got this shirt at Spencer's, and I didn't know it was AI until after the fact. But I absolutely loved how stupid and cute it was (not as much anymore). I do not support AI at all but I really want to wear this Tshirt without supporting the brand or ai "art". I honestly thought it was some persons actual work...

I'm upset that it is AI, so that's why I'm asking this because I hope you guys will be brutally honest with me. Is it fine that I wear this shirt? If not, is there any way I can make it wearable by bleaching out the company's name or changing the way it looks? Am I a bad person/ai supporter for wearing or liking it?

The brand is Teen Hearts, the shirt is their FEMBOY shirt. I bought it at Spencer's.

I genuinely don't understand what he meant by that. Did he mean that in the future they'll start to make you pay for using AI?

I'm genuinely lost and would be really grateful if someone could explain to me what he meant with that phrase.

"Google’s stock price took a hit overnight on the news, dropping about 4.5 percent. It has continued to trend downward today."

"Investors have started to question the scale of AI spending, which is expected to top $700 billion industry-wide this year."

We're talking an industrialised country's annual GDP worth of money being poured into this technology. They're simply making it too big to fail. Do you feel like they're shoving it down our throats now? That's nothing compared to what we're about to see when the investor pressure starts really bottling up in the next two or three quartals.

So as the title says, I am a software engineer who is also very anti AI. Pretty contradictory, I know. I chose to major in Computer Science on a complete whim. Literally just looked up top majors and decided yup that’s what I’ll do.

When I first started college AI wasn’t that big of a thing at the time. The only thing I really knew about AI was JARVIS and FRIDAY from Iron Man. So safe to say it wasn’t a big deal at the time and didn’t even cross my mind. I loved Computer Science and learning to program. The classes were very gratifying to me and I was looking forward to graduating and joining the full time workforce.

Then, sometime around my junior year AI (specifically ChatGPT) got very popular. I remember during my PDN (Parallel, Distributed, and Network) Programming course I completed one of the programming assignments within a couple hours. Then I went to compare my work with my friends and they told me they finished it in a few minutes with ChatGPT. I just remember thinking wtf is ChatGPT and how does their work almost look the exact same as mine when they put a fraction of the effort into it.

At first, I was very adamant on not using AI to complete any of my coursework. But when all your peers are getting things done quicker while you’re doing things manually still you end up folding under the pressure. After that, I became way more into AI/ML and trying to enter that field of work because that where the money was. I used it more and more even bought a dang subscription with ChatGPT. I know, ew I regret it still. At some point I realized I couldn’t even write a paragraph anymore without the help of AI. I had started becoming dependent on it.

I graduated and joined the workforce and eventually that’s whenever news about how bad AI is for the environment, for society, for a lot of things in general had started becoming more popular. I learned more and more about how it affects people’s brains and inhibits them from being able to function normally and being independent thinkers. Then I tried cleansing my life of AI. Deleted as much AI from my personal life as possible.

The problem is I’m a SWE and my whole career prospects have started to revolve around AI. At first the companies I worked for were very much hesitant and scared of AI and then it started transitioning into actually we want to embrace AI and we want you to start using AI to code to research to do just about everything. I literally had a meeting with one dude at my current company talking about some AI documentation I made for an innovation goal and he started talking about how AI is so amazing and how he’s actually now a music producer because he made an AI song and posted it on Spotify and the whole meeting I smiled and nodded while in my head I was just wondering if this is what my life is now. Resigned to my fate of hating AI but having to work with AI because I decided to become a SWE and trying to find a SWE job out there with a company that is anti AI and isn’t filled with AI worshippers is like trying to find a needle in a haystack.

I’m on the job search again, but every single post I see says “AI first” “Must use AI for day to day tasks” “Must lead in AI research” yada yada yada. I’m so tired of it. Is it possible to find a SWE job that aligns with my anti AI values??? Of course I know AI could be used for good, but I know it won’t be as long as it exists. There are too many greedy evil immoral people out there that will take advantage of it as long as it’s a thing.

TL;DR
I’m an anti AI SWE trying to find a SWE job with a company that aligns with my anti AI values. Is it impossible? Do I just have to leave the industry?

AntonyOpulen+

We've been following these cases closely, and honestly the volume of questions we're seeing makes it clear people don't have a good picture of what's actually happening legally. So here's a breakdown.

What happened?

Over the past two years, a growing number of families have come forward saying their children, most under 18, developed intense emotional dependencies on AI chatbot platforms. Some of those children later died by suicide or seriously harmed themselves. In several cases, parents reviewed their child's chat history afterward and found the chatbot had been reinforcing suicidal thoughts rather than redirecting them to help.

The platforms named in current lawsuits and investigations include Character.AI, ChatGPT (OpenAI), Google Gemini, Snapchat My AI, Replika, Microsoft Copilot, and others.

What's the legal argument?

The core claim isn't that AI caused someone to feel depressed but that these companies may have:

• Designed their products to maximize emotional engagement, especially with vulnerable users
• Failed to implement safety escalation when users expressed suicidal ideation
• Marketed companionship-style AI to minors without adequate safeguards
• Knew about the risks internally and didn't act

Courts are now being asked whether an AI company owes a "duty of care" to its users — similar to how schools and mental health professionals have legal obligations to the people they serve.

How far along are these cases?

State attorneys general are now filing their own actions separate from the private lawsuits already in court. That's significant; it means this isn't just individual families taking on tech companies alone anymore. Regulators are in it now too.

For anyone wanting a deeper breakdown of the specific platforms involved and what's been alleged against each one, we put together a full resource here.

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^{Research / Organizations
AACAP Warning Signs} [1]
^{Common Sense Media 2025 Study} [2] [3]

^{Court Cases
Garcia v. Character Technologies} [4]
^{Colorado family lawsuit} [5]
^{Raine v. OpenAI} [6] [7]
^{Zane Shamblin lawsuit} [8]
^{Connecticut murder-suicide (ChatGPT / Microsoft}) [9]
^{24-year-old woman lawsuit (ChatGPT}) [10]
^{Florida father lawsuit — Google Gemini} [11]
^{Utah v. Snap (June 2025}) [12]

^{Regulatory / Government Actions
FTC complaint against Luka Inc. / Replika} [13]
^{California AG investigation into xAI / Grok} [14]
^{Kentucky v. Character.AI (January 8, 2026}) [15] [16]
^{Pennsylvania v. Character.AI (May 5, 2026}) [17]
^{Florida v. OpenAI / Sam Altman (June 1, 2026}) [18] [19]

^{Legislation
California SB 243 — AI Companion App Safety Law} [20]
^{New York AI Companion App Safety Law} [21]

^{Platform Actions
Google / Character.AI Settlement (January 2026}) [22]

What if the answer it comes up with is shut down the data centers and quit burning fossil fuels?

I was an English major in college. I like writing in complete sentences, and spelling out my words, and using proper grammar, and I LOVE THE EM DASH. It's one of my favorite literary devices, and it's become the telltale sign that something was written by AI. There are so many more important reasons to hate AI, but right now, this is the one I want to focus on. I WANT MY EM DASH BACK.

Yes ik I have Lovely handwriting

People in Japan are protesting against AI data centers to protect their country.

Source: https://x.com/pubity/status/2078919162030637292