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Meet the AI vegans. They are refusing to use artificial intelligence for environmental, ethical and personal reasons (www.theguardian.com)
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[–] UltraBlack@lemmy.world 13 points 5 hours ago (4 children)

I want to avoid it but with google making sure that search results get worse and worse I'm in a bit of a pickle. Other search engines still feel lile they're a bit behind though

[–] Malek061@lemmy.world 12 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Duck duck go

[–] Nalivai@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

Unfortunately, it's not better and also shows slop

[–] RickyRigatoni@retrolemmy.com 6 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

You can at least turn off its built-in summaries. But some filtering to detect AI generated articles would be nice.

[–] hildegarde@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 hour ago

You can ask it to turn off the summaries. It still shows them but you can ask.

[–] Krompus@lemmy.world 4 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)

I’ve been using DuckDuckGo for over a decade, the results are fine, and !bangs are extremely useful for piping queries directly to specific sites, !w for wikipedia, !aw for archwiki, etc. The Duck.ai function is a recent addition, and it can be easily disabled if you don’t want it. By default it doesn’t usually pop up by itself. You can also use lite.duckduckgo.com for a much leaner search and absolutely no AI.

[–] astutemural@midwest.social 4 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Just switched to noai.duckduckgo.com. Thanks stranger!

[–] Krompus@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago

Ah, I was unaware of that shortcut, thanks for the heads up, and you’re welcome! 🦆

[–] JigglySackles@lemmy.world 7 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

https://udm14.com/

You can also get a search extension in firefox (probably others as well but I haven't looked)

It essentially strips the bullshit out and just shows you search results.

[–] Fish@midwest.social 8 points 4 hours ago

If you're willing to pay money then Kagi is a great alternative. They claim they don't collect or share your data. Though, Kagi isn't very good for local search results and probably never will be.

[–] Inkstainthebat@pawb.social 6 points 4 hours ago

You've probably heard this before but do consider alternatives like Startpage and Qwant. It's not flawless but I've found it's definitely better.