Option to disable Quick Answers

steog32

Kagi, I beg you, please don't show AI generated responses by default 😭 . This immediately failed the test I give Google every few months and then laughably send to my friends of why I use Kagi:

At least please, please give me the option to turn this off. I get that I'm just one data-point but this is likely a dealbreaker for whether or not I continue my subscription. I think I have pretty good reason for not wanting to trust LLM-generated answers and seeing them take over prime real estate on the results page whenever I run common queries is a tough pill to swallow.

tdg

I strongly agree with the need for this to be an opt-out feature at minimum, and I'd recommend it being opt-in per steog32 above.

In general, it would be wonderful if there were an option to completely disable all current and future LLM functionality in Search so that I never have to think about it again. I have no interest in ever engaging with a churned-up, regurgitated, and likely wrong version of the text in the results I searched for, instead of the results themselves.

Recast

While I kinda like AI answer activating automatically for questions, I wish it didn't force the search results to move around while it writes more text. It might be good to give it a fixed height to start with, then let the reader click to expand it if they're interested?

Vlad

Recast Good idea!

taki

I also cannot turn it off and it is ENRAGING that every time I ask a question and move my cursor down to click on a URL I suddenly have garbage AI text scrolling out and making it a pain.

I pay expressly not to have to deal with this shit, and if this isn't made an opt-in option ASAP, I'm done. I apologize for being so blunt about this, but I have loved Kagi and recommended it to many people. In fact I was planning to change my subscription to Family so I could set my parents up with it and now suddenly I'm facing the concept of dropping Kagi altogether.

That's not an idle threat. I dropped Facebook years ago, Instagram, Twitter when the schmuck bought it, and even Reddit after their fiasco. If I can drop Reddit, I can drop this.

Why would you think this is an ok idea? So disappointed, Kagi. I don't want to use or pay for AI/LLM features. I just want good search.

Vlad

taki Can you give an example of questions you are asking, we can definetely limit the scope of auto activations.

fade3979

I just created an account to say that this is a very annoying feature. Please at the very minimum have an option to disable it.

kagi1234

It writes out the quick answer and moves down the results I'm trying to read forcing me to sit and wait for it to finish typing out the quick answer. This is annoying.

I love the search service otherwise!

i expect to be able to read my search results without being interrupted by the quick answer result populating

SBleckley

Toggling off "Instant Answers" in the Search Settings page doesn't seem to get rid of it, either.

DanielHeath

Seriously, who thought this was okay? I can't click on any search results until I wait for the quick answer to finish loading - which takes 8-10 seconds - because the results keep moving down the page.

Vlad

DanielHeath We did based on user feedback, as normally extremely small percentage of search queries are questions or end with a question mark (which triggers this). Which activation is paritcularly annoying so that we can limit the scope of default opt-in activations?

ChristenGottschlich

Issue
I decided to search "how to cook hominy". When the page finished loading, a quick answer had been inserted despite me not interacting with the "Quick Answer->" link. This does not happen for all search queries. I have yet to experience this on mobile.

Expected Behavior
Quick Answer not showing until i click on the "Quick Answer->" link.

Jake-Moss

New feature https://kagi.com/changelog#3179

In the same spirit of getting answers faster, now simply starting your query with an interrogative word (what, where, who, which, when, how) or just ending it with a question mark (?) will automatically trigger Quick Answer:

ChristenGottschlich

My bad. I should have checked first.

j-james

Vlad I think the point is that there is a huge subset of users - myself included - who do not want ChatGPT responses in their results at all, no matter if the scope was limited. It might be useful to hold off on asking for feedback for auto activation scope until the option to disable it has landed (otherwise you're going to get a whole lot of "never").

Vlad

We will be pushing an update by Thursday at the latest to reduce auto-activations and also include an option to disable it completely. Sorry for the inconvenience.

In the meantime add this to custom CSS to hide this completely.

._0_results_summary_box.__0_show {
  display: none;
}

steog32

Vlad Really appreciate the quick response and turnaround time to getting a fix out. I understand it's an easy mistake to make with a small team- product decisions are hard and I can see how this could happen given how noisy the LLM people are (seemingly crypto-bros in 2018/2021 levels these days, sheesh).

Anyways, so long as there's an option to keep all of the LLM features turned off for my account I'll remain a happy Kagi customer. Looking forward to the patch to be out tomorrow.

SBleckley

Even with AI instant answers turned off in search settings, my searches still have animated AI stuff in the way of the actual search results I want

Please make this setting actually turn off the AI quick answers feature -- I don't want it at all, and I especially don't want it animated and moving everything else on the page so I can't get to what I actually want. Thanks!

mazil

SBleckley

I especially don't want it animated and moving everything else on the page so I can't get to what I actually want.

Exactly.

I think in the discord channel, @Vlad mentioned that the option to turn off quick answer would be coming on Thursday?

benamas

mazil i sure hope so or i'm going to quickly find kagi unusable; the animation is the most aggravating part