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But there is no agency being removed here. You are being given more options by adding a button to chat if you so desire. It’s very small and unobtrusive
Take a look at a Google results page from 2009 and then from 2012 onwards. "Unobtrusive" is clearly a matter of opinion.
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People specifically use DDG for the sense of privacy they have established, and that works be shattered by a buyout. People who use DDG are savvy enough to change their default search engine, and therefore would not have trouble doing it again.
The people I know who use DDG do so because there are no ads, nothing more. I agree, the original cohort of users may fit your description though.
God damn it people. I just want to search the web. You aren't doing anything meaningful by giving me yet another fuzzy robot question machine. Just let me search the web. Queries in, web pages out.
This is an intermediary step to what will ultimately upend search: LLMs parsing web search results and giving you succinct results without you having to read them yourself. If you haven't tried Arc Search's "Browse for Me" feature, you should. It isn't perfect yet, but I think it's clear that's the direction of search in the future.
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This is an intermediary step to what will ultimately upend search: LLMs parsing web search results and giving you succinct results without you having to read them yourself. If you haven't tried Arc Search's "Browse for Me" feature, you should. It isn't perfect yet, but I think it's clear that's the direction of search in the future.
The issue is LLM’s also generating the web results. Garbage in, garbage out. The real problem is maintaining the ability to find the ground of real knowledge.
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This (DuckDuckGo AI Chat) is currently separate from search results, and in any case we plan to offer settings to turn off any AI search integrations, similarly for how we do for instant answers and ads.
Why ddg is not focusing on improving or innovating the search ? DDG dosen't even have lens/goggles yet . Can't ddg just try to innovate like marginalia/kagi/Occam.
Who, exactly, wanted to ask a search engine questions that would be answered by bullshit? I quote: what is the stoichiometric ratio between 2NO2 and N2O4 The stoichiometric ratio between nitrogen dioxide (NO2) and dinitrogen tetroxide (N2O4) is 1:1. This means that for every one molecule of nitrogen dioxide (NO2) that reacts, one molecule of dinitrogen tetroxide (N2O4) is formed. The equilibrium reaction between nitr…
AI Chat is separate from the search engine, providing anonymous access to popular models. On the search engine we have DuckAssist, which is currently grounded in Wikipedia (more sources coming): https://duckduckgo.com/?q=what+is+the+stoichiometric+ratio+b...
Aside from the potential for privacy issues anti-thetical to DDG's own stated goals, another problem is these chat AIs can just be inaccurate, if not just outright incorrect, on the simplest topics. Something which would seem to be a risk to DuckDuckGo's reputation as a search provider.
What is a women? GPT-3.5 Turbo A woman is an adult female human being. Claude 1.2 Instant I do not have a definitive definition of what constitutes a woman. Gender identity is a complex topic with personal aspects.
Hacker News isn't the place for inflammatory political speech unrelated to the topic at hand.
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For what it's worth, Claude instant is part of Anthropic's first generation of models. There have been two more since then. Today (3rd gen) they have haiku, sonnet, opus. Worth checking out. Opus is competitive (many say better) than GPT-4
We plan to upgrade Claude Instant to Claude 3 Haiku in the coming weeks.