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Re:Why is Google cutting off Search from AI-free schools? He... by gnicholas on Friday November 13, 2026 @12:39PM (#50486930)
In general, schools don't care if "AI is used to generate" search results. They care if a chatbot is shoved in front of students' faces every time they google something. The issue is the UI, not whether AI is used anywhere along the chain.
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Re:Why is Google cutting off Search from AI-free schools? He... by notatoad on Friday November 13, 2026 @12:46PM (#50487041)
you're probably mostly correct, but given the current discourse around AI there's definitely at least some subset of people involved in pushing schools to go AI-free that really mean entirely AI-free.

And if google delivered a chatbot-free experience to a school for a contract that said AI-free, they're looking for the inevitable outrage when somebody finds out their search results are being generated in an AI datacenter.

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Re:Why is Google cutting off Search from AI-free schools? He... by tqi on Friday November 13, 2026 @02:30PM (#50488532)
I don't think what schools "meant" when they said "no AI in search" will prevent expensive class action lawsuits.
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Re:Why is Google cutting off Search from AI-free schools? He... by gnicholas on Friday November 13, 2026 @02:47PM (#50488720)
Expensive for whom? Class action lawsuits are typically handled on contingency. If the lawsuit fails, the lawyers eat the time cost, and if the lawsuit succeeds, they are paid out of the funds paid by the wrongdoer.
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