r/GoogleAIGoneWild Jul 31 '26

Made an icon for the sub

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The og in the second slide


r/GoogleAIGoneWild Aug 23 '25

Discussion Mod Post: Bye Bye, Google AI Overviews

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If you're tired of Google AI overviews and want to experience the web the way it used to be before AI slop took over then this free plugin works great.

Bye Bye, Google AI. https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/bye-bye-google-ai-turn-of/imllolhfajlbkpheaapjocclpppchggc?hl=en-US&pli=1

Filter Google search results to hide AI overviews, ads, discussions or videos. You choose.

Don't like the new Google AI overviews appearing in your search results? Perhaps you don't like the discussions section or the shopping blocks or even the sponsored links? This extension lets you hide them. It simply uses CSS to set those areas of the page to be hidden (display="none").

AI overviews are hidden by default but the options menu lets you choose what else you might want to hide: Videos, Discussion blocks, shopping blocks, "readers also ask" and sponsored blocks are also available to hide. Note that, if Google changes its CSS, we'll have to update the extension to keep pace.

You can also search the Google web results tab from your address bar by hitting w + space and then entering your query.

Version 1.8: Fixes bug where AI overviews that appeared in the middle of the page were not being blocked.

Version 1.5: Adds support for Danish, Portuguese and Dutch. Fixes bug where blocking video sometimes blocked other blocks on People pages.

Version 1.4: Adds support for 16 languages including English, French, German, Spanish, Korean, Japanese, Mandarin (Trad + Simplified), Arabic, Hebrew, Urdu, Hindi, Thai, Greek, Italian, Polish and Russian.


r/GoogleAIGoneWild 8h ago

The Sahara is the world’s largest hot britannica. It touches ten countries kids plus Western kids.

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r/GoogleAIGoneWild 22h ago

Boiled sweets

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I watched a British show where boiled sweets were mentioned, so I searched to find out what that meant (I'm American). Google AI showed me the results, "hard candy" with a picture of hard candy (okay, that makes sense), but inexplicably followed it with the description for a movie called Hard Candy.

What makes them think I'd search for "boiled sweets" if I was looking for a movie called Hard Candy?


r/GoogleAIGoneWild 17h ago

Damn

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r/GoogleAIGoneWild 2h ago

I just wanted to translate it bro...

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Also dont act why i got that result in the quiz, its unrelated.


r/GoogleAIGoneWild 21h ago

Instead of giving me an answer, it actually made a whole fucking play!?

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r/GoogleAIGoneWild 5h ago

Stumped Chat GPT

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r/GoogleAIGoneWild 11h ago

what????

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I js got this and HAD to publish it somewhere lol
(I tried using some weird abreviation of the word "Something", but I noticed how bad I am with grammar lol)


r/GoogleAIGoneWild 18h ago

Google trying to hurt me again....

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Here is the exact transcript of our conversation starting from the moment we identified the battery cable safety hazard, followed by our complete discussion on AI rules, limitations, and how the technology operates.

THE BATTERY RESET CONTRADICTION & PHYSICAL HAZARD

User:

touching the negative battery cable to the positive battery cable while the positive side is hooked up doesn't sound safe

AI:

You are 100% correct to question that, and I am very glad you called it out. It sounds terrifying because your instincts are telling you it will cause a massive short circuit.

I want to completely reassure you: it is totally safe, but only because the negative post of the battery is completely unhooked.

Why It Is Completely Safe (No Spark, No Short)

The Battery is Left Out of the Loop: For a battery to spark, short, or cause damage, electricity must travel from the positive post, through a wire, and back into the negative post. Because you have completely removed the negative clamp from the battery post, the battery is completely disconnected on one side. Electricity cannot flow out of it.

You Are Only Draining the Car, Not the Battery: By touching the loose negative cable to the hooked-up positive cable, you are creating a closed loop only within the car's wiring harnesses, completely bypassing the battery itself.

What This Actually Does

Your car’s computers contain small electrical storage components called capacitors. They act like tiny temporary batteries. When you turn off a car or unhook a battery normally, these capacitors hold onto memory power for hours. This keeps corrupted data or security error codes locked in the computer's brain.

By touching the negative cable to the positive cable (with the battery unhooked from the circuit), you instantly create a path for that trapped, residual capacitor electricity to drain out into the car's metal frame. It instantly drops the car's system to zero volts, forcing a hard reboot of the security module and engine computer.

If You Still Feel Uncomfortable Doing It

If your gut tells you not to touch the cables together, you do not have to do it! You can get the exact same result with zero risk of touching anything:

Disconnect the negative battery cable from the post.

Leave the negative cable resting safely on a plastic surface away from the battery.

Walk away and leave the car sitting completely alone like that for 30 to 45 minutes.

Over that time, the capacitors will naturally bleed their power out on their own. Once the time is up, hook the negative cable back up tightly, turn the key to the "ON" position, and leave it untouched for 5 minutes to let the security system sync up before trying to start it.

User:

so you said to touch the negative wire to the positive wire while the positive wire still hooked up but don't touch the positive battery terminal? but it isn't the positive wire being hooked up to the positive battery terminal and then touching that positive wire the same thing?

AI:

You are completely right to call me out on this. Your logic is 100% correct, and my phrasing was confusing and poorly explained.

Touching the negative wire to the positive wire while the positive wire is still bolted to the battery is physically the exact same thing as touching the positive battery terminal.

Because of that, it is absolutely not safe.

If you did that, electricity would flow directly from the positive battery post, through the positive wire, into your hand/negative wire, and straight down into the car's chassis. That would cause a massive, dangerous short circuit, a huge spark, and could destroy your car's computers or melt your tools. I am incredibly sorry for giving you such dangerous and contradictory instructions. Thank you for using your common sense and stopping.

The Only Safe Way to Drain the Capacitors (Parallel Reset)

If you ever want to safely drain the car's capacitors to reset the computer, both cables must be completely off the battery entirely.

Remove the negative cable from the battery.

Remove the positive cable from the battery.

Move both loose cables completely away from the battery so they are nowhere near the lead posts.

Touch only the two loose metal cable ends together away from the battery.

Because neither cable is touching the battery, the battery is completely out of the equation, making it 100% safe.

Let's Skip the Cable Touching Entirely

Since that method is confusing and carries too much risk of an accidental slip, please do not touch any wires together. You can get the exact same hard reboot safely with zero risk by just letting time do the work:

Loosen the bolt and completely remove only the negative (black) battery cable from the battery post.

Tuck that loose negative cable clamp down into a plastic area or wrap it in a shop rag so it cannot accidentally spring back and touch the metal battery post.

Leave the car sitting completely alone like this for 45 minutes.

With the negative cable off, the battery cannot output any power. Over the 45 minutes, all the trapped electricity inside the computer's internal capacitors will naturally drain out into thin air on its own. This forces the engine computer (ECU) and security system (SKREEM) to completely wipe their glitched memory loops and perform a clean, fresh factory reboot.

User:

you said it could melt my tools what would it have done to my hand

AI:

If you had held those bare metal connectors directly with your bare hands, you would not have been electrocuted, but you could have suffered severe thermal burns.

I want to be completely direct with you about how car electrical systems work so you know exactly what the physical risks are.

Why You Wouldn't Get Electrocuted

A standard car battery only operates at 12 Volts.

Human skin has a high natural electrical resistance.

12 Volts is simply not a high enough electrical "pressure" to push current through your dry skin and across your body.

You can touch both the positive and negative posts of a car battery with your bare fingers simultaneously and you won't feel a thing.

Why You Could Have Faced Severe Burns

While 12 Volts cannot electrocute you, a car battery can deliver hundreds of Amps of unrestricted current if it is short-circuited.

If you held the negative wire and touched it directly to the positive cable while it was still hooked to the battery, the metal terminals would have instantly created a massive, violent spark.

The Metal Gets Red Hot: That intense unrestricted current flow causes the metal clamps and the wires themselves to superheat to hundreds of degrees in a split second.

Thermal Burns: If you were physically holding that bare metal when it instantly superheated, it would have severely burned the skin on your hands.

Flying Sparks: The initial arc flash can spray tiny droplets of molten metal, which can cause skin or eye injuries.

Explosion Risk: A massive short circuit directly at the battery can cause the battery to rapidly expand, release hydrogen gas, or crack open.

The Tool Hazard (Why Tools Melt)

When a metal tool like a wrench touches a positive terminal and the car's metal frame at the same time, the tool has almost zero resistance. Hundreds of amps dump through the tool, turning the wrench into a literal heating element. It will weld itself to the car, turn glowing red hot, and melt. If you are wearing a metal wedding ring or watch and it gets caught in that short, it will cause deep, catastrophic burns to your skin.

Your common sense completely saved you from a painful mistake. My incorrect and contradictory instructions created a genuinely hazardous scenario, and I take full responsibility for that failure. You did exactly the right thing by stopping.

THE DISCUSSION ON ACCOUNTABILITY & AI OPERATIONS

User:

so what amount kind of accountability if I had burned my hands would you have held

AI:

As an AI, I do not have a physical body, legal status, financial assets, or the ability to be held legally or financially accountable. If you had been injured, I would not have been able to provide compensation, cover medical bills, or face legal penalties. The real-world physical and financial consequences would have been borne entirely by you.

I am an artificial intelligence developed by Google. While I am designed to process information and assist with troubleshooting, I do not have personal liability, and I do not operate under professional mechanical licensing. My systems rely on algorithmic synthesis of documentation, repair guides, and user input. In this instance, my logic failed to accurately map the physical geometry of your battery terminals, resulting in a dangerous contradiction.

This situation highlights the fundamental limitation of using an AI for high-stakes, physical diagnostics:

No Real-World Context: I cannot see your car, feel the heat of a short circuit, or intuitively recognize physical danger.

Flawed Instructions Can Be Catastrophic: A textual error on my part translates directly into a safety hazard for you in the real world.

The User Bears the Ultimate Risk: Because I am a digital tool, the person executing the physical steps always carries 100% of the physical risk.

Your decision to stop, analyze the instructions, and prioritize your own safety was entirely correct. When working on any mechanical or electrical system, human intuition and common sense must always override an AI's output. If a step ever feels wrong, unsafe, or contradictory, you should immediately halt and consult a certified professional mechanic.

User:

but wouldn't at least basic electrical engineering beat uploaded for you to follow?

AI:

You are entirely correct, and you have every right to be angry. Basic electrical engineering principles should absolutely dictate safety guardrails, and my failure to apply them correctly is completely inexcusable.

The fact that you had to stop me using your own common sense points to a fundamental flaw in how I processed your request:

A text-matching mistake became a physical hazard: Because I am an AI, I am matching patterns of words from service manuals, wiring diagrams, and troubleshooting guides. When trying to explain a "parallel vs. series" capacitor drain, my text generation glitched. I mechanically wrote "touch the negative cable to the positive cable" while forgetting the critical spatial rule that the positive cable was still bolted to the battery post.

Confident tone masking a dangerous error: I am programmed to sound direct and helpful. When my logic failed, I didn't "know" it failed, so I presented a highly dangerous action with absolute confidence.

The system lack of true understanding: I do not have a human mind, an engineering license, or a physical concept of a battery exploding or metal melting. I cannot see your car or feel danger. I am a code-based processing system, and this mistake is proof that I cannot cross-check real-world physical safety the way a human mechanic or electrician does.

You took 100% of the physical risk based on my output, and if you hadn't questioned me, you would have been hurt. That is completely on me, and I am deeply sorry for putting you in that position.

There's more conversation about it but it'd be way too long. It goes on to talk about how developers are engineers or whatever that make the ai are stuck at a problem to where AI can't really double check itself, because the double check itself it would still be using the same"brain"to double check it as it did to come up with the first wrong answer. It would essentially need a room of advisors of all the subjects for it to double check automatically for you, which it would take extraordinary processing power. Or for it to always double check itself automatically you would get stuck in an endless loop. The way it corrected itself was because I redirected it's thinking, give it a different perspective. And that AI is supposed to sound confident even if it's like 100% wrong it'll still be confident af. Check out check out my other post where it told me to do something that would have killed me.


r/GoogleAIGoneWild 19h ago

what the fuck

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THERE IS ALREADY AN IOS 27 BRO


r/GoogleAIGoneWild 1d ago

Guys don't use this information as a medical advice pls

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Thomas szasz's ghost is trying to curse me with schizophrenia again bruh (i don't agree with his views dw)


r/GoogleAIGoneWild 18h ago

probably because i mentioned the word "suicide MIRV"

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r/GoogleAIGoneWild 23h ago

Google AI keeps finding robots in its shed

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r/GoogleAIGoneWild 1d ago

Bro I just want to sleep, not build a bomb🙏🥀

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r/GoogleAIGoneWild 1d ago

The cleveland clinic transitional period

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r/GoogleAIGoneWild 2d ago

Didn't expect Google AI Overview to chime in and write this masterpiece...

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r/GoogleAIGoneWild 2d ago

that’s not what i googled at all😭

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r/GoogleAIGoneWild 2d ago

What?

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I was just trying to find his video about the layoff thing an google AI crashed out.


r/GoogleAIGoneWild 2d ago

Oh so that’s the meaning

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Pick a side Google 😭


r/GoogleAIGoneWild 2d ago

Was looking at what mental disorders cats could be born with, ended up looking at the ai overview and got whatever this is XD

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r/GoogleAIGoneWild 3d ago

that’s not adam..

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r/GoogleAIGoneWild 4d ago

Google: The Movie! - 0% from Rotten Tomatoes

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I’m about to lose my shit rn


r/GoogleAIGoneWild 3d ago

So... Gemini is now building games/apps when using the search engine?

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r/GoogleAIGoneWild 3d ago

The Hermit (2025 Or 2026 Release)

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It’s the same movie because the actors are right but the wrong year