Option to turn off all AI features

Corlin

Please.
🙏

I will not pay for this service unless I can completely turn off all AI services.

Gely

I have mentioned in the other thread my dislike of the new quick answer button in the mobile experience, but to me this further highlights how those who dislike AI features would benefit from an option to hide all of these features entirely. The current settings are not close to enough

devalexwhite

I'd love the ability to disable ALL LLM features throughout Kagi with a simple toggle. Preferably this would remove any reference to LLMs.

Disable quick summarizer
Remove assistant from Kagi Apps menu
Remove universal summarizer from Kagi Apps menu
Remove fastgpt from Kagi Apps menu

Ideally Settings->General->Disable all LLM features as a toggle.

bostonblack

ariasuni

This is my problem as well. I dont mind a sleak AI-integration and Kagi is probably one of the more better search engines here, but the colorful buttons are just annoying. Its nudging people to use more AI in Kagi, which shouldnt be the case or at least should be avoidable by toggling it off.

The feeling of always being just one step away from kicking off some genAI stuff is just not nice. Using AI is just too enticing, and it still results in slop or plain wrong information. A search engine should treat this with caution. Maybe dont even answer the question fully, but show users the five pages most likely to answer them. Then they would be motivated to check facts and sources and not just blindly believe, what the AI stated.

Thibaultmol

The quick answer you're referring to is being rolled back. Intention wasn't to make people use ai more, just to make people who use ai, make it easier.
But mainly just making it easier to switch between results and quick answer but turns out the button isn't very intuitive anyway so it's being taken out

bostonblack

Thibaultmol

Making something easier is also motivating and enabling more use, is it not? It might not have been intentional, but this is what UX changes do. They motivate behaviour.

Thanks for reacting so swiftly! Looking forward to the rollback – and more options to control LLM integrations. This is necessary for me as a customer.

ThomasFX

Hi, new here. From my perspective, I’d rather not have anyone suggest or summarize anything to me in a web browser from LLM / AI. As benign as software dev teams think it may be, it always smacks of someone, somewhere making a buck off of steering me away from Sony to Nikon (or something). I don’t like it. My generation adopted the internet first, so I just have absolutely had it with AI browsers trying to (inaccurately) summarize a Wikipedia page to me, or help me write a letter or an email or suggest where I should go on vacation or what vacuum to buy. Advertising I get, but assuming I can’t read and having 1000 things in my UI that are acting against my best interests, pass. If I adopt this app, I’d like a clear, easy to find, documented-in-the-help-file, non-hidden slider to turn this feature right off.

Sincerely,
GenerationX

Dustin

ThomasFX see Kagi's AI Integration Philosophy

Thibaultmol

ThomasFX tbc, none of the ai features you have to use. Unlike google and such, we don't auto show you an ai overview. only if you click quick answer or add a question mark does it popup. So the ai stuff is optional. People just don't like seeing the ui element essentially

EDIT: usual reminder that you can use custom css to hide the ai features for now
https://kagifeedback.org/d/4014-option-to-turn-off-all-ai-features/86

NoahV

Thibaultmol I think many people (including myself) would rather that Kagi not spend any time or effort developing generative AI features.

However, being able to completely hide them would at least let AI be "out of sight, out of mind". I have to deal with AI buttons everywhere else - It would just be nice if, in the search engine I am paying for, that I had the option to just... not see it.

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