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Saloni
@scientificdiscovery.dev

Is there any way to turn off Gemini from automatically responding when you search on Google? I've tried and can't figure out how to do so, if it's possible at all.

Tim Harford@timharford.ft.com

I've been checking the source of quotes for my forthcoming book, and the performance of Gemini is extraordinary. I paste the quote into Google, and Gemini will barge in with the wrong answer over and over again. It's not an occasional thing - it's reliably wrong. Very odd.

Alex Crits-Christoph
@acritschristoph.bsky.social

Not directly, but there are a few hacks, but many of them have downsides! This is the way I have found works best. In uBlock origin on Firefox, I have this custom filter. This blocks the AI summary box as if it were an ad. But it does not block other google summary boxes, like for maps or flights.

Alex Crits-Christoph
@acritschristoph.bsky.social

another approach is to make your default web search engine a custom google search engine that ends with &udm=14, like this. but with this method, no map or flight summaries will automatically come up either, which can be annoying

Alex Crits-Christoph
@acritschristoph.bsky.social

option a is through the extension ublock origin; option b should work with default firefox or chrome! Here's where to go in firefox - and i'm pretty sure the equivalent in chrome is explained in this answerhttps://superuser.com/a/1828601