Do you think it really doesn’t train on your data?
I’ve been using it and it looks good so far, I just ask simple questions and never let the context get too big.
It’s good that it doesn’t require login, just open and ask something.
I don’t want AI anywhere near my daily drivers. If I want to use AI it needs to be siloed and unable to access any of my data unless I explicitly feed something into it.
Hijacking your comment to remind others of https://noai.duckduckgo.com/ The more that is used, the faster DDG may remove AI from the main page. (Hopes and dreams…)
any ideas how to add that engine to Vanadium on GrapheneOS?
👏 Thanks.
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Good news: “AI” doesn’t actually exist.
True, but nowadays, and for foreseeable future, AI means what the tech bros mean by it.
I hate AI being shoved into everything. I’ve been using https://noai.duckduckgo.com/ and am very happy with it.
Is that an official noAI version of DDG?
Yes it is. No AI results by default.
It’s a frontend. Of course they don’t, it’s not their AI.
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I guess if you can trust ddg using ms search w/o sending information back, you can do the same with ai?
Interesting to see comments on this. I’m a bit suspicious, understanding the costs involved.
It needs to PISS OFF.
It should be off by default. As it’s set up right now, DDG settings don’t keep on privacy respecting browsers due to cookies being cleared regularly. Since their AI is on by default, that means it regularly gets shoved in your face.
For you and whomever else needs to hear it, you can solve the second part by going to https://duckduckgo.com/settings and saving the bookmark with all the options included. Then you can clear all the cookies you want and it’ll always load the same settings.
If you’re using cookies. In general https://noai.duckduckgo.com/ is the way to go otherwise
Sorry, I wasn’t as clear in my original post.
At the bottom of the settings page you can generate a “bookmarklet” that includes the config options in your URL. So https://duckduckgo.com/ becomes https://duckduckgo.com/?kae=t if I want the Terminal color scheme. And this works without cookies. And this applies for all possible settings.
Interestingly I set my home page to a string that should disable all the AI features and I still got summaries sometimes so not sure if that’s a bug, user error, or hostile UI. In either case, something like you suggest with https://noai.duckduckgo.com/?kae=t&etc=… should give you the best of both worlds.
I like this, thank you for the insight
I’d prefer this route too, but my phone browser doesn’t allow users to add custom default search engines
Which phone browser? You could always set it as your homepage to it if that’s where you usually start out
I like it. There are some questions I need a quick answer for. Code syntax for example. I don’t need to read stack exchange. I just need the one quick thing.
I use it reluctantly and only to un-fuck the fucked up search. if there were a good search engine I wouldn’t use the thing.
There is no such thing as “AI”.
But I appreciate the generated summaries of search results. Sometimes they miss the point of my search, but they’re often quicker than searching through the webpage results.
I don’t know why people get so mad about it.
Because of rampant hallucinations, yet people taking them as gospel. Not to mention the energy cost for no real benefit
