Posted on 06/08/2025 1:55:49 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Google has found a new way to police the speech of its users: scolding them for typing factual terms into its search bar.
After a Justice Department lawsuit resulted in Texas ending in-state tuition for illegal aliens at state universities, I used Google to look up more details about the case. In response to the search “texas scholarships for illegal aliens,” the search engine’s AI overview slapped a patronizing warning at the top of the page, scolding me that “the term ‘illegal alien’ is considered pejorative and offensive.”
“It is more accurate and respectful to use terms like ‘undocumented students’ or ‘immigrant students,'” the note continued.
But a term like “immigrant students” is far less accurate, because the lawsuit applied only to immigrants who are in the United States illegally, not immigrants on student visas or green card holders.
I reached out to Google asking if it was company policy to scold users for the words they type into the search bar and pressure them to self-censor, and a Google representative emailed back but did not provide a response to my question. Nor would she point to any inaccuracy in the term, or explain why the search engine recommended a less accurate term.
If you search the term “illegal alien” on its own, Google delivers this definition: “a foreign national who is living without official authorization in a country of which they are not a citizen.” That definition is, of course, perfectly accurate.
Other dictionaries, however, are more Orwellian: The Dictionary.com definition of “illegal alien” has a cautionary note warning readers that the term is “Often Disparaging and Offensive.”
Further down the page, in a whopping 336-word “sensitive note,” the dictionary website explains...
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I have the AI results blocked.
The term "illegal alien" refers to a person who enters or resides in a country without legal permission. However, recent guidelines suggest using "illegal" only to describe actions, not individuals, advocating for terms like "living in or entering a country illegally" instead.
Sounds like the Googlers need to take off their beer googles and have somebody FACT CHECK their “Facts”. They’re full of some of Biden’s malarkey.
If you disregard the appalling grammar, you might be able to make that case.
My first result on DuckDuckGo links to Wordnik, and says:
“noun US, derogatory. A person who is within the boundaries of a political state without that government’s authorization; a national of another country who has entered or stayed without permission.”
I didn’t receive ‘AI’ input.
"The one that controls the vocabulary wins the argument"
an update from "He who defines the terms wins the debate"
The terms‘undocumented students’ or ‘immigrant students’ are dishonest, inaccurate and Orwellean.
The terms‘undocumented students’ or ‘immigrant students’ are dishonest, inaccurate and Orwellean.
It is their newest search called Assist. Maybe you have to download it
Sometimes, AI software needs to be digitally told to ‘Shut Up & Sing!
I have the AI results blocked.
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How do you block AI results? Thanks.
Oh... This is just getting started, it is in it’s infancy. I am going to say it again. AI is going to be used to create an alternate history, and re-engineer culture and society. How anyone could even think this is acceptable is absolutely beyond my comprehension. The risks outweigh the rewards a thousand fold...
I use this extension.
‘Hide Google AI Overviews’
I see it sometimes, and I see now that it’s there, down and to the side. But it’s not my first result and is easy to miss. (On other searches, ‘Assist’ has been at the very top...)
A friend of mine told me to download a free app called Perplexity. It is an AI thang. It does OK.
DDG finds many distionaries that give the correct definition without the genuflecting DEI crap...
A spade is a spade...
Although I feel that a better description is “diseased migrant invader”...
Thanks.
I like that search engine but it load slow for me for some reason
I wonder how “criminal invader” is perceived?
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