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DuckDuckGo made sunglasses that do absolutely nothing, and they sold out
www.techspot.com/news/113357-duckduckgo-made-sunglasses-do-absolutely-nothing-they-sold.html
TechSpotDuckDuckGo made sunglasses that do absolutely nothing, and they sold outDuckDuckGo's latest product is a pair of ordinary sunglasses, with no added features such as video recording or generative AI integration. Part marketing campaign and part wearable...
DuckDuckGo should apply this lesson to their search engine!
DuckDuckGoDuckDuckGo No-AI: Private Search Without AIDuckDuckGo private search with all AI features turned off. The classic results you expect. Always private.Replying to @notabot@piefed.social
I maintain that this should be the default behavior and the AI be opt-in
Replying to @Godort@lemmy.ca
I’d say most people don’t really care
This comment is unnecessarily dismissive and unhelpful.
If people don’t care, then they won’t care if it’s gone either. And that’s the better option.
Replying to @XLE@piefed.social
If enough people were that bothered about a box with an AI overview, it wouldn’t be there. Simple as that. The thing is that the overview turns out to be helpful in some cases, despite what the haters think.
Recently, my mom killed one of her plants, because she searched for something to use as organic fertilizer and the ai summary suggested to add coffee grounds mixed with water daily. She realized it was a fake information and isn’t trusting anything from internet searchers anymore. I wonder if at some point it will happen to most non-tech people, and search usage will go down heavily.
Replying to @morto@piefed.social
Coffee grounds can be helpful to add to fertilizer, but you need more than just coffee grounds: pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11241280/
PubMed Central (PMC)The Effect of Recycled Spent Coffee Grounds Fertilizer, Vermicompost, and Chemical Fertilizers on the Growth and Soil Quality of Red Radish (Raphanus sativus) in the United Arab Emirates: A Sustainability PerspectiveThe overuse of chemical fertilizers degrades the soil ecosystem and restricts the natural development of plants. Various byproducts are produced throughout the production and consumption of coffee within the coffee industry, and they are significant ...
Replying to @boatswain@infosec.pub
This being partially right is probably exactly how it ended up in the training data. But AI is too dumb to understand which parts are relevant/important.