Yerbouti comments on DuckDuckGo pitches itself to schools amid backlash over Google's AI policy

[–] neo2478@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

I use them and like them as a search engine. I just with the noai version was the default, and if they must have an AI version, it be opt in.

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[–] echodot@feddit.uk 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 child)

I don't really mind the AI per se. My objection is to the implementation of it where the first returned result is in fact an AI summary which I didn't in fact ask for.

If I search the term lug nuts it's probably because I want to buy some, and not because I want to summary of what they are. It must be such a waste so much water every time they do that, only for me not read it.

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[–] Yerbouti@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago

You can put AI to "on demand", and it should be the default mode IMO.

I basically never want AI summaries. On top of using 10x energy it's basically just Wikipedia's first paragraph with extra steps.

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