Could a school district IT employee automatically append this to all search requests sent over their network?

They would have to be using ssl decryption to append it at the network level. There may be extensions that would do it though?

most schools already are

I actually made an extension that hides the AI results (using a different method), and which works across Google, Bing, and other search engines. [1]

It's 100% free (of tracking and cost).

1: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/beeline-search-avoi...

Yeah, we are still needing a way to modify webpages. Hiding a div on a web page is about ~1 line javascript, and there is no way to inspect and share it.

Extensions are a security risk, userscripts are a security risk as well. Too bad all the current browsers are user antagonistic :|

Even if you disable the 'AI overview', the search results themselves are powered by AI models as well. They have been since at least ~2018 with BERT.

No one's objecting to that aspect of things.

Won't be first time there's unexpected consequences due to how someone formed the legal argument

What about if results are (re)ranked using an LLM? It's not inconceivable that they would do this.

For schools, I think if you just let them turn off the AI summaries everyone would be fairly happy.

Maybe, but not necessarily. For example, I recently searched for someone who worked at a company using a plain language query. The AI identified one person (correctly, as it happens), but all the links below were to different people.

Obviously the results were not driven by the same AI that produced the summary.

Please comment in good faith. The discussion is about generative AI.

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