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DuckDuckGo pitches itself to schools amid backlash over Google's AI policy (techcrunch.com)
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[–] 6 points 2 days ago (8 children)

I thought they still use (and push for) AI

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  • [–] 19 points 2 days ago* (3 children)

    Their search is opt-out of AI in settings, instead of google's approach of always on, and you can also use noai.duckduckgo.com to avoid configuring settings.

    Their filtering out AI results is hit or miss, but at least they do provide an option to exclude some of those results.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 days ago (2 children)

    I get commercials for their AI search.

    I also use their non-AI search.

    It seems valid to bring this up when they are trying to become the standard for some schools.

    I would like to believe that they are above board, but I do not believe anything about corporate values, because corporations are not people. (And even the agendas of people can change. Looking at you, Andy Yen, Proton CEO.)

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  • [–] 1 point 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

    If you allow a cookie, you can turn off ai and ads in settings. If you don’t allow a cookie (or for a private window), you can visit https://noai.duckduckgo.com/ and it has ai turned off.

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