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that's crazy. And even if you add -ai to remove the "AI" result, it doesn't show you word definitions anymore. Did they have some kind of contract with the dictionaries they used that ended? Probably cost cutting.
Probably cost cutting.
I think the reason is that Google wants that AI slop box to be the go-to for people. Their goal is surely to get people to only use that box. Sadly their goal is working. So many people are lazy and/or stupid that they consume the slop without thinking and without clicking a link and leaving google.
Google users are less likely to click on links when an AI summary appears in the results
2025/07/22
Surely the situation will get worse and worse.
Every time I think "no way people fall for this" I'm wrong. 99% of the time I see someone posting their "proof" (typically on tiktok) it's a screenshot of Google ai summary
It reminds me of conversations I had ~15 years ago with people like my relatives about Facebook and similar sites. I tried to explain to them that privacy is priceless and they acted like I was a bit unhinged. Their arguments were usually based on the fact "it doesn't matter really" and "Facebook so convenient," and "How else am I gonna share photos easily?" They trusted Zuckerberg and they didn't really understand anything I was saying.
I got nowhere and it was no fun being looked at as if I was a cassandra spreading needless worry. I stopped talking to people I knew in real life about it. I realized we'd all learn the hard way. AI will be the same.
Just gotta set up a shortcut to search https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wiktionary:Main_Page
Firefox let's you hit a site search button directly in the search bar.
It gave me a correct definition of sanguine though? Like you linked me to the AI giving me a correct definition of a word.
GenAI is bad, but you can't just link me to an instance of it doing ok.
I think the issue is more that it's synthesizing it's own definition instead of giving you an official one. It links to it, but there's quite a bit of noise added in.
I just fed it a super specific issue and it just bailed and showed me my own post about the issue instead.
The fact that you clicked it, though, expecting a wrong answer, say enough right?? /j
Duckduckgo is definitely better than google now. Searching "define sanguine" brings up the american heritage dictionary definition at the top. But what I would normally do is search "sanguine !wt", which takes me right to the wiktionary entry for sanguine.
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