I have encountered a peculiar behavior.
Despite having turned off the “Answer with AI” setting, I still receive AI results for certain questions (and no, they’re not from CodeLLM).
A query that I have found that will ALWAYS generate an AI answer for me is searching for “Verwendungszweck englisch”. Here’s a screenshot:
For other queries, it usually works fine to not receive an AI answer, but certain ones seem to ignore the setting (even reloading or re-enabling and disabling the setting doesn’t remove the AI answer).
I would appreciate it if you could fix this issue.
yes - first it was possible to deactivate that AI-icon but now its always active red although in the settings its deactivated … and when you ask for something “rare” most of all in another language than english then the entire blinking and hopping AI circus-search starts and its impossible to get rid of it – and of course they aleays collect our search to feed this monster because it cannot grow and work without food – so every deactivation never really is one – I want a version without this monster in - no matter if it can be “deactivated” or not
I am going to test LibreWolf now … they promise not to collect anything and dont have any AI … and also offer all blockers - the blockers were the only reason why I used Brave - I never wanted all that stuff they included step by step …
@MQM thanks for sharing. I was able to replicate this as well today. I relayed the concern to Search team. Sorry I missed your topic from back in July. It popped up in recent due to @ajaccio bumping your topic via replying and now hopefully getting it to the right people for them to figure out what might be happening.
Now EU is going against Google because AI is violating user privacy rights – and this concerns ALL AIs – also Braves !!!
Will become expensive if they dont stop forcing it on European users !
European regulators crack down on Google’s AI systems
The Irish Data Protection Commission accuses Google of not assessing how the gathering of Europeans’ personal data to develop one of its AI models could threaten fundamental rights and freedoms.
The potential violation of the European Union’s privacy data protection regulation could lead to a multimillion-euro fine of up to 4% of Google’s global annual revenues.
@Rafael1 not really. The long and short of it is that @jlop and others from Search have said they can’t replicate the problem. It seems to be a complete mystery to them. I’m not sure if Support like @Mattches and @steeven can advise any further on it.
I see you responded over on Still getting AI generated answers in Brave Search - #10 by Rafael1 too. Putting link as it’s two different topics for the same issue. Not sure if we should merge them and lock one. But I’ll leave it be for now and just leave everyone from Brave tagged.
@Rafael1 btw, let me confirm again, you’re saying this appeared just from a normal search, right?
Asking because if you hit the Answer With AI button it will use AI to answer. That toggle is only meant to stop it from automatically responding. But if we hit the button, will give AI generated result.
So like when I tried to get the same results as you:
I believe this has been discussed before – I believe that there are some queries that use a “summary” feature which leverages AI, but is different than the actual “answer with AI” functionality and I’m unclear on whether or not it is expected to blocked when Answer with AI is toggled off also. Going to confirm this shortly.
That being said, just like @Saoiray, on my end, with Answer with AI disabled and using the same search query, I do not see an AI response, summary or otherwise:
Additionally, we do have open issues for the Answer with AI toggle not always being respected:
In the meantime, one thing you can do here is use the built in Element blocker to hide any AI elements (or elements from any page) from appearing on the search page – including the AI/summary output field. See my comment here for more details on how to do that.
Yes, just normal random searches. Typing something on the address bar having brave search as my default search engine, no other actions. I just got one, the first time I posted the screenshot was from my phone, now I’m on my PC.
Also not sure it’s helpful, but it doens’t take much for it to happen to me, is not once in a while, probaly 1 in 3 searches the AI kicks in.
BTW, I saw some recommendations about using the block elements function to force it to be hidden, while not a perfect solution, I understand the workaround, but is there anything to be done for mobile?
button it will use AI to answer. That toggle is only meant to stop it from automatically responding. But if we hit the button, will give AI generated result.
