Interstellar_1@lemmy.blahaj.zone to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 9 days agoWhat's a mainstream service or application that hasn't caved to shoehorning AI into where it isn't needed?message-squaremessage-square22linkfedilinkarrow-up151arrow-down10
arrow-up151arrow-down1message-squareWhat's a mainstream service or application that hasn't caved to shoehorning AI into where it isn't needed?Interstellar_1@lemmy.blahaj.zone to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 9 days agomessage-square22linkfedilink
minus-squareabbadon420@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up14arrow-down1·9 days agoDDG seems to be marketing themselves as “google without the ai bullshit” these days.
minus-squareadarza@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up31·9 days agoit is present on their main search but can be ignored or put out-of-sight easily enough. you have to use noai.duckduckgo.com to have it just ‘off’ period.
minus-squarestoy@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14·9 days agoYet they still run their own AI/LLM, for the last year or so, I have kept getting an AI answer box in DDG…
minus-squareoneser@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up14·9 days agoI would argue this is a “follow the market, or become obscure” type situation unfortunately. I have a number of colleagues who don’t look beyond the AI summary on Google and get annoyed when it doesn’t show up for a search.
minus-squareMac@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8arrow-down3·9 days agoAt least now you know that everything they say is worthless.
minus-squareLanvjscdlk@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down1·9 days agoI wish I could recommend DDG but their (Microsoft’s? Are they still a frontend around Bing?) search results are just terrible.
minus-squareklangcola@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·9 days agoThe bing index is one of their sources for search results (although a major one yes). From Wikipedia: … including Bing, Yahoo! Search BOSS, Wolfram Alpha, Yandex, and its own web crawler (the DuckDuckBot)
DDG seems to be marketing themselves as “google without the ai bullshit” these days.
it is present on their main search but can be ignored or put out-of-sight easily enough.
you have to use noai.duckduckgo.com to have it just ‘off’ period.
Yet they still run their own AI/LLM, for the last year or so, I have kept getting an AI answer box in DDG…
I would argue this is a “follow the market, or become obscure” type situation unfortunately. I have a number of colleagues who don’t look beyond the AI summary on Google and get annoyed when it doesn’t show up for a search.
At least now you know that everything they say is worthless.
https://noai.duckduckgo.com/
I wish I could recommend DDG but their (Microsoft’s? Are they still a frontend around Bing?) search results are just terrible.
The bing index is one of their sources for search results (although a major one yes).
From Wikipedia: