I have gone to settings and disabled Leo as far as I can. Is there a way for me to get rid of the “Answer with AI” that I see every time I search?
A small thing, yes, but if I want it gone, I really do want it gone.
I am using: Version 1.66.115 Chromium: 125.0.6422.112 (Official Build) (64-bit)
Thanks.
Brave --> Block elementCreate in the box at the bottom right of the pageThank you so much! Your directions solved my problem. And…I learned something new. Cheers!
You’re welcome — more information on content filtering here:
@Mattches @MicheleB I understand that you can turn off AI search. I have done so. My feature request is that Brave turn AI search off by default. Let people opt in instead of requiring opt out. Here is a link to a Scientific American article saying AI search costs 30X the energy of ordinary Google Search. Why is Brave making its users waste energy by default??
If you really want to empower users, have a referendum system for issues like this. I know some users may prefer AI by default, but I bet if they knew the energy cost the majority would want it turned off. – All the best
Seriously?
AFTER we select disable in the settings for AI?!
Search doesn’t mean results SIMILAR to facts! It means find FACTS.
I mean REALLY, seriously?
Even though it is completely obvious at this point to anyone that all LLMs come up with a bunch of hallucinated results?
Is this how hard globalists want to push AI in our face?
GET RID OF IT!
It comes up with the “6 broken fingers on one hand” equivalent of REPETITIVE, multiple page long word salad.
LLM is “creative” (in plain English: clueless about facts) so the ONLY use for it is the weirdest trash type of art, and absolutely nothing else.
It can’t deliver results based on fact and logic.
It has no understanding of concepts.
It is NOT intelligent in any meaning of the word.
It’s wasting OUR TIME, and a bunch of energy on processing power.
REMOVE IT.
If someone has a creative problem where it MIGHT be helpful, they can go to a dedicated AI website.
There are thousands of them jumping on this fraudulent hype train.
STOP wasting people’s time and STOP wasting energy!
The thing that annoys me about it is that it moves links down as I try to click on them as it loads causing me to click wrong links. Even when I haven’t clicked the More down arrow sometimes 
YES PLEASE! REMOVE IT! Not everyone wants it so give us a break. I have supported Brave, for many years but it is starting to be like all the others, push, push push the agenda. I Have turned off AI, blocked all elements on a page yet as soon as I visit a new page, or close my browser… Boom!, it is back! The search continues for a better browser! ughhh!
I agree. My impression about AI is that many people seem to be uninterested in it, or even distrustful, yet every developer and his brother have been tasked to be first in line to get us to engage with it. Unfortunately, ‘getting us to engage’ is usually ‘forcing us to engage’, if we want to or must use their products.
I can see that companies feel that if they don’t add AI capability to their products, they will fall behind on the “next big thing”. I don’t think Brave has done a really horrible job in their implementation (though I agree it is very annoying the way it keep popping up).
I personally feel that it is a constant battle to gain mastery of my tools (whether operating system, apps, or browsers), as opposed to them having mastery of me. I want to choose how I want to interact with these tools.
Now that many programs are operating under a leasing model, perhaps this is all about shunting us along a path to increased enmeshment with each product’s ecosystem.
PS Though I can see the benefits of AI, I cannot be the only one concerned about copyright issues and the encroachment on my own analytical and creative agency in many of my activities. I had hoped we’d get some regulation to assist us in the area – but what was I thinking?! 
For anyone here who is simply telling at us to “completely remove Leo AI from the browser” — while we appreciate your feedback, but we will not be removing Leo from the browser. If you’d like, I’d be happy to try and rope in one of our Leo devs and/or product managers to help explain why that is the case. Note that this does not mean that you have to use Leo AI — you’re more than welcome to disable it, hide it and pretend it was never there to begin with.
For anyone having an issue where they are trying to disable Leo AI — either on the Brave Search website or in the browser — and are encountering a bug in which the AI continues to reappear even after being disabled/hidden or otherwise is not respecting the settings that you’ve changed, then please open an actual issue here so that we can troubleshoot and figure out why that is happening.
Thank you
WOW. What a waste of my time posting here - no one is listening and we are getting TOLD that it will not be removed. Well I will remove Brave! Bye now!
The original posting here was not to remove AI from Brave, but to allow users to completely remove it.
It then, for me, moved to what I thought was an interesting discussion about how quickly and aggressively AI is being introduced and why.
I’m sorry I participated in allowing the topic to drift. My original question was answered immediately, to my satisfaction.
I’ll stop replying. Thanks
