It is neither, their AI search features only optional at this stage. It is one of the most private implementations of AI that I’ve seen though.
It is one of the most private implementations of AI that I’ve seen though.
Based on what information/criteria?
Privacy policies.
Thanks.
If it’s as private as they claim it shouldn’t be an issue.
It’s neither. Why do you expect they calculating an answer to have any impact at privacy?
I mean DDG search is safe, but my search results and search queries are going through AI, who knows they are collecting it
It only goes through their Wikipedia LLM if you push that button
DDG already sends your search query to third parties. What they don’t send is your identity.
(Or, at least they say they don’t, whether you trust them is your option. Any 3rd party can betray your trust.)
Anyway, that image implies an in-house implementation.
Try SearXNG. SearXNG is a free internet metasearch engine which aggregates results from more than 70 search services. Users are neither tracked nor profiled. Additionally, SearXNG can be used over Tor for online anonymity.
Duckduckgo is also available on Tor. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=duckduckgo+onion&t=fpas&ia=web
As is Startpage now.
Startpage is owned by an advertising company
And DDG is on record for censorship and caving to Microsoft. They also both provide results based off MS and Google results.
Neither are ideal. It’s why only use them as a fallback. Brave Search all the way.
I very, very strongly disagree.
They claim not to save your chats and not to use them for improving the AI model. Using GPT-3.5 Turbo through DuckDuckGo is definitely better than using your phone number to sign up for an OpenAI account, so yes, I think it makes sense to use this. But ideally, you could just run an AI model offline on your own hardware, I recently saw a Lemmy comment that explains this very well: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/comment/10348570
You can also use @[email protected]’s AI Horde as explained here: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/comment/9295041
I’m not sure, but if I’m going to use AI features, I’d trust DDG more than I’d trust the big players in AI.
As unfortunate as it is, the only way privacy search engines will survive is by adding AI. Brave recognized this early on and implemented it very well, so I’m glad to see DDG seems to be implementing it well also. Hopefully Startpage catches up because even though I almost exclusively use Brave Search, I do enjoy Startpage as a secondary source.
Honestly I see no use for the ai response in search as it is hard to trust 100% but I do see that it could become a requirement for a search engine
I agree somewhat. I know how to use a search engine, I don’t need AI. The main problem is that, sadly, AI is going to be required to stay competitive.
I will say Brave’s AI is very useful, though.
Is it good
no.
Oh no :( DDG also becoming bad. Can you suggest me any other search engine (Not Self Hosted one).
I’m currently stuck using DuckDuckGo myself, just with the AI fluff disabled in settings. I’ve tried various other search engines but they’re either also buying in the LLM hype, or are just Not There Yet™ (https://stract.com, for example), or both.
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