Like, three days later, and I have some fucking bullshit to report on this tip.
It doesn't work for all searches. I'm watching a Religion for Breakfast video on YouTube about "religious residue," namely the stuff that lingers with you after you've left a religion. I didn't watch it immediately when it showed up in my subscription feed because my exit from my childhood religion was and has been layers of being weird and feeling worse. Like, I'm angry at the institutions and a lot of the congregants I interacted with growing up, but I also feel deeply for the people and don't wanna slander the name of my old home because my particular religion of rearing is tiny.
Not a cult, there were neither enough conviction nor enough control of the members to be a cult, and if it had been, then far fewer people raised in it would leave in their early adulthood.
But I decided I wanna know what kind of residue I have all up on me. And some of the obvious things like praying in certain ways, eating within certain restrictions, and observing certain holidays simply don't apply to my Liberal Church of Wokeness™ full of rainbow flags the same way they would if I'd been raised Christian, Jewish, or etc.. Most of my religious behavior happened at churches and ceased as soon as I left with very few exceptions.
Then the video started talking about the rote repetitions that kids in more familiar religions internalize and I thought to myself, "Do I still remember my church's covenant?"
(Side bar: In the Liberal Church of Wokeness™, covenant is used differently than when Christians use it. They don't make a binding deal with a god, they make a deal with each other, and since each congregation is different, each individual Liberal Church of Wokeness™ that I've ever been to has had its own unique covenant. They don't seem to update them often, though, which you'd really think they would as the congregation changes and ages over time, but, moving on.)
So, I put some quotation marks into Google and filled them with my best recollection of my childhood church's covenant, a covenant I learned before I learned how to read from listening with my bad right ear and worse left one, and tagged -ai to the end.
Google's AI popped up to tell me this was the "mission statement" of my childhood church, thus angering me at least three different ways since: "I told you not to fucking show me your AI!" "We–I, I, I mean they don't call it a mission statement, it's a completely different thing!" and of course, "The only search results are my childhood church's current website and an older version that gets a 404 if you click on it, you didn't need to fucking summarize a damn thing, what the fuck?!!" all happened near instantaneously.
I tried -ai (minus sign AI), "-ai" (open quotation mark, minus sign, AI, closed quotation mark) and -"ai" (minus sign, open quotation mark, AI, closed quotation mark) for the same inquiry and kept getting the same completely unnecessary violation of the AI showing up anyway.
So I checked to see if all of Google Search has abandoned this tip and trick by googling something neutral, something troubling, and something quotable from memory: "spongebob" -ai. No AI, but some links relevant to Spongebob. "Suicidal thoughts" -ai. No AI, but some hotlines and trustworthy medical websites at the top of the first page. "old but i'm not that old young but i'm not that bold" -ai. No AI, but various videos pertaining to Counting Stars by OneRepublic.
So I guess don't google about religion unless you're ready to get mad at the robots the billionaires are forcing us to use? Maybe it only pertains to smaller religions, but I'm too heated to remind myself of the wording of Catholic Grace and google that with various -ai variants, so shrug.
