Interstellar_1@lemmy.blahaj.zone to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 5 天前What's a mainstream service or application that hasn't caved to shoehorning AI into where it isn't needed?message-squaremessage-square22fedilinkarrow-up151arrow-down11
arrow-up150arrow-down1message-squareWhat's a mainstream service or application that hasn't caved to shoehorning AI into where it isn't needed?Interstellar_1@lemmy.blahaj.zone to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 5 天前message-square22fedilink
minus-squareabbadon420@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up14arrow-down1·5 天前DDG seems to be marketing themselves as “google without the ai bullshit” these days.
minus-squareadarza@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up31·5 天前it is present on their main search but can be ignored or put out-of-sight easily enough. you have to use noai.duckduckgo.com to have it just ‘off’ period.
minus-squarestoy@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14·5 天前Yet they still run their own AI/LLM, for the last year or so, I have kept getting an AI answer box in DDG…
minus-squareoneser@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up12·5 天前I would argue this is a “follow the market, or become obscure” type situation unfortunately. I have a number of colleagues who don’t look beyond the AI summary on Google and get annoyed when it doesn’t show up for a search.
minus-squareMac@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8arrow-down3·5 天前At least now you know that everything they say is worthless.
minus-squareLanvjscdlk@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down1·5 天前I wish I could recommend DDG but their (Microsoft’s? Are they still a frontend around Bing?) search results are just terrible.
minus-squareklangcola@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·5 天前The bing index is one of their sources for search results (although a major one yes). From Wikipedia: … including Bing, Yahoo! Search BOSS, Wolfram Alpha, Yandex, and its own web crawler (the DuckDuckBot)
DDG seems to be marketing themselves as “google without the ai bullshit” these days.
it is present on their main search but can be ignored or put out-of-sight easily enough.
you have to use noai.duckduckgo.com to have it just ‘off’ period.
Yet they still run their own AI/LLM, for the last year or so, I have kept getting an AI answer box in DDG…
I would argue this is a “follow the market, or become obscure” type situation unfortunately. I have a number of colleagues who don’t look beyond the AI summary on Google and get annoyed when it doesn’t show up for a search.
At least now you know that everything they say is worthless.
https://noai.duckduckgo.com/
I wish I could recommend DDG but their (Microsoft’s? Are they still a frontend around Bing?) search results are just terrible.
The bing index is one of their sources for search results (although a major one yes).
From Wikipedia: