The slop in search will continue until you give up on Google.

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[–] 54 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Somewhat ironic given that DuckDuckGo has AI on by default. You have to either save the settings on the cloud or manually turn off AI when searching using DuckDuckGo. Still a good privacy search engine though.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    Wait, it has a quick blurb on by default but actually interacting with it requires an opt in. That seems like a good balance.

    In fact doing a search now (duck is my default) it doesn't even offer an ai answer unless I click it first.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    But what about all the AI slop in the web results?

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago

    No idea if it's how I have things saved but DDG is just enough AI for me. If I want AI to answer a stupid question without making me bother with shitty SEO spam, great! If I want to find a site, I can! Not costing me anything near as I can tell.

    I'm happy enough with DDG. Your use-case will vary.

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  • [+] 18 points 1 year ago (4 children)
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    [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    Their AI is only useful because the quality of search results has gotten so bad.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    "Let's mitigate AI hate by putting in more AI!"

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