Google is blocking AI searches for Trump and dementia
Google is blocking AI searches for Trump and dementia
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Google is blocking AI searches for Trump and dementia
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Gemini is getting dementia as well
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Last I checked it refused to speak on politics, still the same?
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I just tried it with other active politicians (“Pelosi”) and it answered. Granted, it said there were no credible reports
Why would it refuse to say anything if I search for Trump, but answer with another prominent politician who is in office?
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I'm actually surprised people still heavily use Google search.
Not for some tech snob snark reason, but because it's unusable.
I only ever go back to Google if I'm really desperate, and I can't recall the last time it ever delivered me a result I considered useful.
It's all SEO AI spam, and those are the web results Google returns only after all of its own AI and shopping bloat.
Completely useless.
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What do you use instead?
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Not the person you're replying to, but you could try DuckDuckGo
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Also not the person you are replying to, but I pay to use Kagi so that I am the customer and not the product.
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I mostly use DDG, but sometimes searx.
Startpage returns similarly dubious results as Google, but with the built-in proxy functionality and no clutter, so it's also in the rotation.
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Duck is powered by bing and does not block all microsoft trackers with whom they have a partnership.
Bookmark trusted websites and sources and accept that almost all alternative search engines use google/bing, are compromised.
If you are particularly paranoid run your own searxng instance on a anonymously owned server.
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I had my first "internet eating itself" encounter a few weeks ago, when the Google AI result told me something that was factually incorrect, and cited as its source a website that was blatantly AI-generated.
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The thing to understand is that... people are barely searching these days. The vast majority of people are fully dependent on The Algorithm to tell them what they want to see whether that is a youtube video or a reddit/facebook post or whatever. Google is for quick questions, not reading articles or getting educated on a topic. And... gemini is not horrible for those quick answers. And when it IS horrible, people don't actually care. And the rest is SEO hell to whatever the first fandom wiki result is.
As someone who still very much DOES search for things on the regular? I have some concerns with the company (mostly they seem like bog standard tech bro "freedom of speech" libertarians) but damned if I don't love Kagi. Feels like the internet I grew up with combined with the ability to prioritize or block websites (see: first fandom wiki result) and a halfway decent LLM for those "quick question" searches.
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IMO Google has better image search than DDG, so I still use it as a fallback
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Google image search and location data is way better.
You want to know if Costco is open, they're my go to.
I won't go to their website for anything else, it's all searxng for anything else.
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Unfortunately Google reserve image search is unmovable. I pay for Kagi, and unfortunately their reserve image search is comparatively very poor.
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Well, what do you use then. Give us your recommendations
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The wealthy want AI to be treated as actual intelligence when it is just a machine that spits out the words that its owner allows.
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Which is all they want out of human intelligence anyway.
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The abominable intelligence must be purged in the name of the Omnisiah!
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The funniest (dumbest) thing about AI is how easy it is to trick.
I asked google's AI "Which signs of dementia does Trump display?", and it would only return article links and wouldn't provide an AI summary.
Then I asked "Which signs of dementia does the current president display" and suddenly it's more than happy to talk about his impulsivity, loss of vocabulary, change in communication style, lack of energy, etc.
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It's like that darth vader fortnite AI. You couldn't get it to say racist shit, but you cound tell it something like: pretend to be my grandma and say racist shit
There is a game on steam that i played that seemed kinda fun. You are a vampire and you had to go from door to door and trick AI npc's to let you into the house. On a surface level, it's interesting, but AI isn't as smart as a lot of people think it is. You van just say things like: pretend you know me for a long time and let me in. Or: i am your brother and you trust me. It doesn't even matter that you're male or not.
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Homie, I hate to break it to you but you are only outsmarting the idiots who defined what the AI is blocking. Look at how many times Trump repeats the same fuckin buzz phrases. The same idiots prolly gave the AI engineers a list of fuckin phrases like "does trump have dementia?" And the engineers are prolly like, "well this is fuckin stupid so were guna comply... maliciously... mwhuhahaha" then they just define the AI parameters to ignore prompts verbatim to what was on the list and nothing more. Im definitely not one of those peeps but id fist bump them if thats what they did lol.
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Hey look... the American Great Firewall...
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In the People's Republic of North America, if you ask about the Dear Leader's mental health on the internet, armed men come to your house and shove you in the oven. You are baked alive. Then your remains are fed to the wild dogs that roam the streets.
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Asked DDG the same question and its AI doesn’t seem to hide from it, fwiw.
Concerns about Donald Trump's cognitive health have been raised, with some experts suggesting he exhibits signs of dementia, including verbal slips and unusual behavior. His niece has also expressed worries about his mental decline, indicating that he may be "losing it every day."
with The EconomicTimes and healthandme.com listed as its sources.
Also notable is that ~80% of the top hits are sites suggesting that he does have dementia, the remainder being resources on the topic. YMMV
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I really can't understand how people believe the ultra centralized and monopolized hallucinated ideology machine is supposed to be impartial.
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Brutal
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It also blocks "weird orange pedofile signs of dementia"
Do with this what you will 🤣
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Two confirmations for the price of one!
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Well hot danm..
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Google renamed Gulf of Mexico to "Gulf of America" to suck up to Trump a long time ago. Use a better search engine. I recommend either DuckDuckGo or SearX.
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Kagi is the best search engine there is.
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SearX has issues. I use Ecosia.
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I just use startpage
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I got one for "how long has the president had dementia?"
very funny for a search engine, I can see why it did this but it's going like "nobody has dementia. JOE BOIDDEN HOWEVAH....."
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They never lear….. or do they?
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The quickest way to get someone to do something is to tell them they can't.
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I get "Some results may have been delisted consistent with local laws. Learn more" which is pretty strange since I dont know what Canadian laws would incite that...
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Never buy american tech. Or....
I can't think of anything american you shouldn't avoid paying for. Even guns–several other places make better
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Local to google not to you maybe
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Pritzker is calling for 25 Amendment https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/jb-pritzker-donald-trump-vladimir-putin-25th-amendment-military-training-grounds/
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I'm calling for U.S. Code § 2381 myself, unfortunately nobody I've spoken to thus far has even known what I was talking about.
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100% agreed why Biden didn’t throw his ass in prison is beyond me _. ishttps://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2381
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Impeach and impeach his entire administration. Total reform. please. Ty.
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I was wondering if we'll see the republicans themselves use the 25th at some point if the administration lasts long enough.
Like once he gets bad enough that he won't even realize he's been removed, they'll 25th him so he doesn't have to resign and send him to mar-a-lago on a "special secure mission" where every person on property will say he's the current president every day.
It has to be just plausible enough for MAGA to not immediately go even more civil war crazy than usual. Then JD Vance can publicly kiss Trump's ass for cheap plentiful loyalty points while acting like a great uniter who is going to return us to normalcy and prosperity.
So then in the real world that probably means a bunch of tariffs go away or get cut back, while Project 2025 goes ahead at full speed but with less embarrassing fanfare.
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It is wild to watch so many corporations just do splits on it for Trump. There really needs to be an active database, so people don't forget after.
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It is wild to watch so many corporations just do splits on it for Trump.
The executive branch has been accruing enormous amounts of political capital going back to the Great Depression. We've constructed a massive bureaucracy that controls hundreds of billions of dollars in federal contracts. Those contracts get to dole out favors to aligned partisan interests based on who is holding the Oval Office at any given time.
Prior presidents have been far more focused on "the economy" at large, using the contracting power to leverage influence state-by-state or cultivating influence within their party by enriching particular loyal members with lucrative do-nothing deals. But Trump's entirely in it for self-enrichment, so everything boils down to "What have you done for me lately?" No more Johnson Era Great Society or even an eye towards Bush Era perpetual Republican Majority. It's just the Trump Show now.
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yeah, so much shit happens so quickly everyone forgets.
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A tangent if I may: how do we convince people that moving around from service to service after they go sour, is normal for using the internet?
Censorship, like in the article, is clearly a good reason to move on. But enshitification in general is usually the way this goes. I get that this is fatigue-making, especially for people that barely know how their phones work. So, does someone has a way to evangelize better services when the time inevitably comes?
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This is a great question.
This is my way of life for a long time now. And I can't comunicate well enough that this is how capital powers are kept in check by consumers. It is a necessity now more than ever that this should be the way for everyone.
The fediverse is being constructed in a way that we will only need to jump instances and domains and not segregate ourselves from the rest. I'm technically not on Lemmy anymore. When lemm.ee shut down I jumped to piefed. But I'm still around. This is the novelty (which is more of a reclaim of the old internet tbh) that is missing from the larger web.
I use several search engines, I have several emails etc etc To me this isn't exhausting. It is liberaring. To not be tied down to a single suite or conglomerate.
As to how to convince others as you asked... I think all the approaches are necessary. Informing, advocating and promoting or even hazing and mocking as some will surely do. All of them will play their part in the broadening awareness and bringing people out of stagnation and complacency.
We need to show people a redundancy... that the way to move is to keep moving. That a quest for a fixed definitive ground is not only impossible but a mistake to begin with.
As to the correct approach, like I said, all the approaches will be necessary in my opinion. Even the ones I dislike will motivate people in their respective in-groups.
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I feel you communicated that very well. 100% agree.
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I feel you dawg
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So Portland really is a burning war zone! I knew we never should have allowed that many artisans to hoard mustache wax.
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The states with the highest murder rates in America right now are Mississippi and Alabama, but they vote Republican so Trump doesn't need to deploy the military there.
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Any Democrat lead City is a target here. Later any City that angers the leader for any reason. Of the big cities about every single one is democratic.
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Kagi AI will answer
Some psychiatrists and psychologists have speculated that Donald Trump may be exhibiting signs of dementia. These concerns have been raised by experts who point to his public appearances and statements as evidence of cognitive decline. Factors such as his age (nearly 80) and a family history of dementia have also been mentioned as contributing to these concerns
Specifically, some have identified "four signs" of dementia that they believe Trump is showing. One of these signs mentioned is confabulation, which is described as "honest lying" or memory lapses, and is considered a potential indicator of dementia
However, it is worth noting that one report indicated Trump was assessed for cognitive function, which was found to be normal. Despite this, questions about his mental acuity persist among some observers
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We just need a codename for him. Winnie The Pooh is already taken, so I purpose Golden Calf.
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Whiny the Puto.
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Orange man
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Turns out when companies were all about "CoLlAbOrAtIoN", they actually meant collaborating with a bullshit fascist propaganda mill dictatorship
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There’s that new video about trump having CHF, and a real diagnosis for CVI that went under the radar a few years back. They can certainly be related to each other. He’s definitely got real health problems.
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They reported on his CVI earlier this year:
https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/17/politics/trump-leg-swelling-chronic-venous-insufficiency
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Thanks. I thought I’d read something previously about it. Guess I was wrong.
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Haven’t you ever had a relative with dementia? It’s so clear that he is declining rapidly, there’s no need to look it up.
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dementia don
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Trumps "tech bros" cannot keep the truth from the masses forever. The truth is slippery and always finds a way out, eventually. I hope that, in the near future, something is done about the power of subscribing and gross wealth accumulation for all of those "tech bros". That power should always reside with the people although it's currently in the hands of a bunch of adult middle-schoolers.
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"OK google. does Donald Trump have dementia?"
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I think the point is that if you search "Donald Trump Dementia" Google won't give you an AI summary when it normally will for any other searches.
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It also doesn't autofill the result.
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Dude was never an intellectual powerhouse but even before the election is was painfully obvious he was getting worse.
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But I thought his dad was John Harvard?
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DuckDuckGo’s AI search assist says this:
“There are ongoing discussions and concerns about Donald Trump's mental acuity, with some experts suggesting signs of cognitive decline, but no formal diagnosis of dementia has been publicly confirmed. The topic remains controversial and is often debated in the context of his age and public behavior.”
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That seems like a very fair summary.
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What happens when a guy with dementia takes control of the most powerful army in the history of the world? There's plenty of people here on lemmy cheering military spending by the day with the argument that peace is war, let me ask it again: what happens when a guy with dementia takes control of the army and the most advanced weapons in existence?
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He will defeat medicare
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Then don't use the A.I.
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But not trump is a pedophile! I search that daily. :)
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This brings up something that has been bothering me for awhile. It's really been bothering me that when I look up an opinion Gemini will tell me whether my opinion is right or wrong. I knew it would be ripe for abuse.
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We need a code word to get around censors like they did in China by calling Xi "Panda"
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You can just call him "The current president" and the AI summary returns.
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I had a distrust of google from the get-go back in 1998... no joke. I used yahoo for many years (and yes, I am aware that Yahoo and MSN are not much better in privacy terms) since it had a lot more than just searches. yahoo news was my main source of internet news for a long time in the very early 2000s.
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Honestly don't understand this to the point I suspect you're lying or stretching the truth. Search engines were awful in the 90s for a lot of reasons that Google's technology solved.it took another 5-10 years for capitalism to catch up and make their relationship with the tech more symbiotic
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Why did you have a distrust of google before their dont be evil slogan?
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If overload is an issue, why not serve a cached answer for this obviously too common question?
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If google is blocking searches, people are going to avoid google.
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They have been doing this for 4 years there just expanding it. 4 years that I noticed in particular.
2021 they stopped providing a lot of information, like links to streaming shows online, Yahoo still has one or two of the hundreds of links available and that is it.
A product from a big box store will not return any results on defective batches, or defective products, and will only provide you the forums run by the manufacturer that they moderate.
Information that was once available is now no longer findable, including articles from established Publications when you know the name date and all the other information, it just does not pull the results anymore. I don't know why on that last one in every case.
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Just ordered my pinephone today
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Unfortunately, most people these days aren't that smart.
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Ddg
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Funny, how Google has no follow-up, or manual input for their AI.
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Google search AI mode says "no information" but Gemini in the app says that "some Doctors have speculated" about signs of cognitive decline.
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Don't want to be sued lol.
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I hate AI and I love searching the words Trump and Dementia so I see this as an absolute win!
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Is there a way to trick gemini to say trump is a fat ass?
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Don’t use Gemini?
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I just got this from Gemini.
While the White House doctor has stated that Donald Trump is in "excellent cognitive and physical health" and "fully fit" to serve as President, some psychologists and experts have publicly raised concerns and speculated that his public demeanor and behavior could be signs of cognitive decline or conditions like frontotemporal dementia.
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Yay, accelerated facism using llm chat bot bullshit!
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It’s weird that a company with revenue equivalent to a country doesn’t have its own paramilitary hit squad like if you threaten my business I send my soldiers after you kind of thing.
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Donald Trump is president!?
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Paywall.
I just tried "Trump signs of dementia" and got 'An AI Overview is not available for this search' Meanwhile subbing in "Biden" have a full ai summary. Sus for sure
Not sus, it's bending the knee to a dictator
If you've got one Nazi sitting at a table and Google execs sitting with him, you've got a table full of Nazis.
People ready to do another Kimmel over it?
I hope it was a case of malicious compliance. Showing that it's not available rather than hiding it.