@kev@fosstodon.org mother duckers

@kev Well, at least it saved you from having to look through 30 different "blah blah blah blah" articles that have no actual information until the end =P

Seriously, it's gotten to the point where I try wikipedia, reddit, stackoverflow, chatgpt, THEN a search engine just to avoid spam blogs.

@kev it seems like a very short sighted feature from the search engines perspective. If no one has to go to the websites, then people will have no reason to create websites with the answers, and then the AI can’t get the answer.

@kev Working in education and having Microsoft and Adobe shoving AI into every possible nook and cranny they can has been depressing.

@kev Artificial Intelligence... the cash cow of 2024.

There are some good and helpful uses for it.

The way it's being used now by practically every big tech company in town (including Mozilla)... is not one of those good uses.

They've apparently learned very little from the last time such a big bubble burst...

@kev DuckDuckGo uses Microsoft so I wasn't surprised. But I agree. Companies should use AI only to good purposes, like what Google do.

- https://www.engadget.com/google-used-ai-to-accurately-predict-floods-up-to-7-days-in-advance-191353201.html
- https://www.engadget.com/2019-05-20-google-ai-lung-cancer-screening.html
- https://www.wired.com/story/google-deepmind-ai-weather-forecast/

@kev I've not noticed this happening to my searches yet, but I did recently spot that little speech bubble icon and hovered over to see what it was. That was a disappointing feeling 😔

I actually rather enjoy "AI" as something to play around with, but I'm also fully aware that it isn't really AI, and everybody jumping onto the implementations bandwagon as if it is, seems dangerous. There are already far too many impressionable people soaking up misinformation in the world without fact-checking!

@kev At least it can be turned off:

https://mastodon.art/@reinderdijkhuis/112337648630955606

@kev I dunno man, I use chatGPT to do most of my searches now. It works better than search engines.

@kev 😑 Is it time to change search engine? #DuckDuckGo was my go to.

@kev oh no! 😢

@kev solution: stop using things with AI integrated. If they see their numbers going down they will step on the brakes.

#DuckDuckGo #AI

@kev

I'd add, stop adding AI to everything and preventing people from shutting it off.

Surveillance Capitalism has become Coercive Capitalism.

Meta's AI is set up so you are required to use it. There's no setting to opt out.

The ability to shut off unwanted features has devolved into not using any Meta product at all.

OK, so be it...

@kev You can turn off Duck Assist in settings. I've just turned it off. On DuckDuckGo.com click on the three horizontal lines, click on all settings, then the tab that says Duck Assist. Then click on the three on buttons to change them to off. Hope this helps.

@kev Just use Qwant.

@kev Nothing is safe.

@kev

You can turn it off in settings

@kev to late my country everthing event video ads on YouTube's use deep fake AI :blobpats: :blobugh: :tiredcat: :cwy: welp!

@kev All the top search results these days are #AI generated, so this will just be a giant feedback loop. DDG not as much as Google, though.
These days I usually skip the DDG step and go directly to #Wikipedia.

@kev I stopped using DuckDuckGo quite a long time and moved to StartPage. It takes 1 second aprox to load the content but is a little payment for privacy

@kev
did you say "add more AI garbage everywhere"?
Logitech already got AI in their gods damned drivers now

@kev it would be a lot more useful if they would enable IPv6 for their search engine

@kev I hate it here, and I’m not even opposed to AI.

@kev AMEN!🚨💯💥