So DuckDuckGo has an 'AI assistant' now. For feck's sake. People don't use your search engine because they want an energy-and-resource-hungry piece of software to give them inaccurate search results. Read the room, guys. - ThreadSky

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oisinmcgann.bsky.social • 9 hours ago

So DuckDuckGo has an 'AI assistant' now. For feck's sake. People don't use your search engine because they want an energy-and-resource-hungry piece of software to give them inaccurate search results. Read the room, guys.

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pierocastellano.com•9 hours ago

Also, completely useless.

caraep.bsky.social•9 hours ago

I've switched to Ecosia - hoping the tree planting part of their deal is real and means they won't be backing AI. 🤞

animatewithdermot.bsky.social•5 hours ago

And asked me if I wanted to have adds on my search page.
JFC.

oisinmcgann.bsky.social•5 hours ago

Shit.

blacksmithpro.bsky.social•8 hours ago

Exactly, spotted it yesterday and immediately said wtf and turned it off. Only thing I can say is at least theirs is easy to do that with and you can make it permanent but the fact that they auto turned it on is wrong (as is making it at all).

oisinmcgann.bsky.social•7 hours ago

Yeah, there is that at least.