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DuckDuckGo made sunglasses that do absolutely nothing, and they sold out

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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...

Replying to an earlier post

No, the act of a company shoving something bad down people’s throats does not prove it’s what they wanted. You should know this.

We have polls that have calculated people’s sentiment. They are sick of AI .

AI Is One of the Least-Liked Things in America, According to New NBC PollCNETAI Is One of the Least-Liked Things in America, According to New NBC Poll - CNETThe poll finds that AI is viewed less positively than ICE and President Donald Trump, and only more positively than Iran and the Democratic Party.

Replying to @⁨XLE@piefed.social⁩

This isn’t really about the invisible hand of the market, I was talking about a single company. It costs money to keep those models up, which DDG itself hosts. If we were taking about Google, for example, then I could see the argument since it is a monopoly and my line of reasoning wouldn’t work.

I’m not trying to be troll as you accuse, I’m just trying to think from different perspectives and have something less sensitive to ideology.

We don’t find out the truth by agreeing with everything that panders to our beliefs.

Replying to an earlier post

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 ...