Option to turn off all AI features

carl

Vlad If you read my post again, I think you can see that it is quite helpful, since it contains advice on how to search without getting any AI generated content in the search results. A method that works right now and that I use myself when it is essential that sources contain no machine generated stuff. Now that big tech is proudly releasing many AI tools for content generation, I believe these book sources will only increase in importance.

"Disable LLM features in Search"

Does the average person know this acronym? Maybe "Disable AI features in search" would fit better? Or "Machine generated"?

Vlad

carl I meant the general tone of discussion, lets keep it constructive vs confrontational. Thanks.

ChristOFF

Provide a Plan for Kagi without any AI
a Plan with the search engine only

I would like to see a plan without any AI only search

Vlad

ChristOFF AI is used in search everywhere for example to analyze query intent, rank pages etc. Do you mean LLMs in particular?

ChristOFF

Vlad I mean external costly LLM usage
OpenAI is not cheap.
I know that a token is cheap but at the end of the day it will cost Kagi a LOT if I summarize a lot of content.

My point is

External LLM will cost a lot
I don't want to pay for that (as I won't use it)
I want to continue to pay for the best search engine

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Vlad

AI is a broad term and encompasses machine learning. Machine learning has been used in search for decades. It is almost impossible to run large scale web search without the use of machine learning in some context.

Vlad

Ikuti

In that case a compromise to me would be to keep all the AI related features under 1 category inside the settings.

I think this makes sense. We already have Assistant related settings (which are currently accessible in ultimate plan only) and it makes sense to move everything related into one settings page.

andreagrandi

Vlad correct. Either a “master switch” or just like the screenshot I provided which comes from DDG settings.

andreagrandi

Vlad yes, I did mean LLM features in search results

Luis

Hi everyone, we've introduced a dedicated AI section in the Kagi settings to consolidate all GenAI-related features for easier management.
Currently, the only GenAI feature that activates automatically is the Auto Quick Answer. All other AI features require explicit user activation, which is why there are no switches for them.

NoahV

I'd love the ability to disable all AI features, so: entirely disabling quick answer - removing the button and auto answers with "?", removing links to the Universal Summariser in the menu, removing links to fastGPT in the menu, and removing the assistant in the menu.

Thibaultmol

NoahV This seems like something someone could make a custom css for actually

https://help.kagi.com/kagi/features/custom-css.html

(not me, i don't know what i'm doing when it comes to css)

NoahV

Thibaultmol Yeah, that's what I've done!

/* Quick Answer */
._0_summarize_link {display: none}

/* Summarise Page & Ask Questions */
.__open > div:nth-child(2) > div:nth-child(1) > a:nth-child(5) {display: none}
.__open > div:nth-child(2) > div:nth-child(1) > a:nth-child(6) {display: none}

/* Links in sidebar */
div.px-4:nth-child(4) > a:nth-child(2) {display: none}
a.nav-line:nth-child(4) {display: none}
a.nav-line:nth-child(5) {display: none}

/* AI section in Settings */
a.nav-link-sub:nth-child(7) {display: none}

Thibaultmol

feel free to post it as a gist on gist.github.com

Then it can be added to https://help.kagi.com/kagi/features/custom-css.html

and this issue could be considered solved in a way

press-f

I would gladly pay extra for a plan that:

does not have any AI features;
will not add AI features in the future;
does not try to upsell me into enabling AI features.

I'm fine with ignoring all the sparkle buttons, but it'd be a lot easier if they just weren't there to begin with.

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