Microsoft announced, again, that there are ways to rotate off AI features in Bing Search. We covered it twice before, but the archetypal period we covered it, Bing had a search environment to disable AI Search (aka Copilot) from showing up in Bing. The second time, Bing removed that environment and asked group to download a browser expansion or add -ai to the query to disable AI hunt features.
Jordi Ribas from Microsoft wrote on X "In a nutshell, there are two ways to do this (1) our Microsoft Bing AI Search Choice expansion (preview) which lets you toggle AI features alongside fair one click, and (2) adding the “-ai” indicator in any query e.g. try “why is the sky blue” and afterward “why is the sky blue -ai”."
He admitted it is not new, "Recently, we have received much involvement concerning the capability to rotate on/off AI features in Bing, so we have written a blog to explain how it works." And afterward explained why he is sharing this again, "We enabled these features since we accept everyone deserves a hunt cognition that plant for them, including the choice to decide how and whenever they use AI."
But who is adding -ai as an controller to their hunt queries and who is downloading a browser extension? Why did Microsoft Bing eliminate the hunt environment that can rotate off AI features in search, that is the most logical location to put the environment - no?
Of course, Microsoft got what they wanted from re-announcing this feature. I saw multiple news sites choice this up as a new way to eliminate AI hunt features in Bing and praise Bing for offering it. I saw equal additional mentions of this on social media... And yes, it is awesome Bing offers a way to rotate off AI features.
But I discover it weird and perchance equal doubtful that Bing had a environment to rotate off AI features in hunt and removed it. It was a feature, current is a screenshot of it from 2024:
The environment reads, "Copilot reply on outcome page: Choose if you desire to see Copilot responses on the hunt outcome page." And there is another environment that reads, "Scroll to open Copilot: Choose whether you would akin Copilot to open whenever you scroll/swipe up at the top of the page."
Where is that setting? So now I need to download an expansion on my browser to do this or recall to append -ai to my queries?
Here is a screenshot of this extension:
You don't need to use the extension, you can additionally append -ai to your query to do the identical thing. For example, current is a normal query without the -ai:
Now the identical query alongside the -ai:
Again, it is notable Bing offers these methods but why not add it as a environment in the hunt settings?
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