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Meet the AI vegans. They are refusing to use artificial intelligence for environmental, ethical and personal reasons (www.theguardian.com)
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[–] Krompus@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

I’ve been using DuckDuckGo for over a decade, the results are fine, and !bangs are extremely useful for piping queries directly to specific sites, !w for wikipedia, !aw for archwiki, etc. The Duck.ai function is a recent addition, and it can be easily disabled if you don’t want it. By default it doesn’t usually pop up by itself. You can also use lite.duckduckgo.com for a much leaner search and absolutely no AI.

[–] astutemural@midwest.social 6 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Just switched to noai.duckduckgo.com. Thanks stranger!

[–] Krompus@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

Ah, I was unaware of that shortcut, thanks for the heads up, and you’re welcome! 🦆

[–] danzabia@infosec.pub 3 points 3 days ago

ddg is great :)

[–] Nalivai@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I was trying to use it for a long time, but the results are never fine for me. The situation when I search for something specific, the duck shows me nothing, and the google shows me exactly what I need is far too often for me to completely switch.
Granted, I don't keep cookies, I use all the adblocks possible, and I disabled google's LLM bullshit, otherwise google is borderline unusable.

[–] Krompus@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

!g to pipe to Google if you must, I rarely need to.

[–] Nalivai@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Personally when I use it, unless it's something trivial, I always end up doing exactly that.