#“summarize this movie for me” “what is chapter 4 of dracula about” “pretend to be fictional character and ask me on a date” etc etc etc

[teophan]

there’s a pretty big difference actually but i’m gonna try to take your question about “not googling things” in good faith

1. understand that “google it” as a phrase to mean “search for it on the internet” is on some people’s part a conscious effort to genericize the term so that the company can no longer claim it because it’s become the default shorthand for the relevant concept (like escalator, jacuzzi, etc) and that “asking chatGPT” is not equivalent to “googling it” or vice versa

2. cuss in the search (“are black widow spiders venomous” vs “are black widow spiders fucking venomous”) because google’s AI summary doesn’t pop up in “profane” searches like that

3. there’s an entire list of ublock origin addons that just straight up stops the ai results from popping up (i do not have the link handy but i’m sure if you look up “ublock origin anti ai” or similar you’ll be on the right track)

4. use a search engine that allows you to turn off their ai summary natively, like duckduckgo (set this to your default search engine. when you need to actually use google for something you then have to type in the “google.com” address or it’ll automatically redirect to a search for “google” on the new engine)

5. switch to firefox/a derived non-chromium fork that will allow for this kind of added functionality without fuss (you will get popups on many sites claiming they’re only optimized for chrome and may misbehave on your non-chrome browser; ignore them)

6. minimize your interactions with the google suite of tools as much as possible (there are plenty of free/non-subscription alternatives for basically every tool in the suite; i use NewPipe on android so i don’t get ads or algo on yt)

7. debloat your operating system or switch to a linux-derived OS instead of using windows so you don’t have to deal with their inbuilt “assistant” either (i used WinAero to strip cortana and other bloat from my system; someordinarygamers and other yters have tons of videos on how to debloat, switch, etc)

do not go gentle into that good night. rage, rage, against the dying of the light

"I know chatgpt is bad but you just don't really have any choice" you literally do. Don't use it. Have some moral backbone.