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So duckduckgo has a 'no AI' version, at the link noai.duckduckgo.com/

I do wish they went for an opt-in so you could choose the ai version at something like 'ai-dot-duckduckgo'. But it's better than nothing.


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Fionnáin
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It's also way faster to load results, even when compared to the main one with AI turned off.
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Stefan Ihringer
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cool, I didn't know. I saw an AI result once on regular DDG and there was a button to choose if you wanted to see those things again in the future.
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Fionnáin
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@compfu yeah, me neither. I just ran a search while using a different browser and got a notification of this as an option, so I assume it's newer than the opt-out feature that I've also enabled on my day-to-day devices.
@Stefan Ihringer
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Thibaultmol 🌈
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it's kinda funny how #Kagi which various people complained about having AI features as well... is actually better on this front.

Like... if you search with Kagi, it never does an automatic AI answer.
ONLY if you press the button or add a question mark at the end of your query.

Also with Kagi, even though it's not doing any ai without user asking for it, you can easily remove any of the ai buttons using the custom css feature.
codeberg.org/zerodogg/kagi-no-…
(thx to @zerodogg for making it)


kagi-no-ai

Remove all AI-features from the Kagi search engine
Codeberg.org
#kagi @Eskild Hustvedt
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Davey
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if you click the cog you can bind "no AI" to a cookie on your current browser as well. I think I've found it everywhere now...
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ahimsa
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Is there a way to set this as the default search engine in the browser?
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locus
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is there also away to do ddg.gg searches with noai? noai.ddg.gg doesn't resolve.
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Greg
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Thanks to this I just discovered lite.duckduckgo.com which also seems better. Faster, less BS.
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lx242
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They missed the chance to use the domain ai.FuckFuckNo.com for the Non-AI version of duckduckgo.com
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Jon Sparks
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So I clicked the ‘no-AI’ link and it took me to the AppStore and a listing that literally boasts AI on the first line…
No time to investigate further now, but this is not encouraging.
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RejZoR
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I generally don't mind Ai thing in DuckDuckGo. It's really not annoying and so far it has mostly used Wikipedia as source that I clicked through for more details anyway.
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Fionnáin
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@rejzor sure, it's not the most annoying one.

I guess like many other folks on here I take issue with the massive environmental cost of running that AI analysis at all. I don't need a summarised wikipedia article at the cost of all that water and electricity, the search engine worked fine without that.

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Fionnáin
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@kDelta yeah me too generally, but I bounce around a bit when I'm having trouble finding answers, or when working between browsers, or when using VPNs. My main search engine is qwant.
@kΔ
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King of Tors
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last time I checked you could still opt out by using profanity in your search, which is surprisingly easy to do and doesn't seem to affect actual search results. Google apparently "fixed" that issue and now gives you AI no matter how much you curse in the &*#$% prompt
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Fionnáin
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@kingtor but that's a very clunky opt-out that isn't really an option, so much as a hack. And most people won't use this (and some people might even take offence to doing it).
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Excellent. Added it to manually to Firefox search engine list, and then it can be made default. Thanks! 🙏
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Nami
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any idea on how to make the no-AI version the default search engine?
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Fionnáin
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@compl4xx there are a few suggestions in the comments here. I haven't tried any but expect they will all work. Let me know if you can't see them and I'll screenshot.
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Damon L. Wakes
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This is fantastic! I tend to use a default browser that doesn't store cookies etc. and changes to DDG settings would just get lost between sessions. I've got this as my default search now.
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Google’s AI is turned off by adding the word “fucking” to searches.

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