Stay out of my academic searches, gen AI

Something I had long dreaded came to pass yesterday.

Google Scholar introduced generative AI.

“New! AI outlines in Scholar PDF Reader: skim the bullets, deep read what you need.”

Andrew Thaler had the perfect riposte to this new feature.

If only scholarly publications came with a short synopsis of the paper right up front, written by the authors to highlight the important and salient points of the study.

We could give it a nifty name, like “abstract.”

Exactly! Not only do researchers already outline papers, many journals require two such outlines: an abstract and some sort of plain English summary.

I don’t need this. I don’t want this. No more generative AI infiltrating into every nook and cranny of the Web, please.