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[–] Magnum@infosec.pub 58 points 1 day ago (1 children)

lol what? Do they have some kind of statement addressing that?

[–] Deckname@olio.cafe 48 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Yes they addressed it here. its kind of understandable given that they want to exist and everyone else has AI... But companies... At least you can turn it off.

[–] wewbull@feddit.uk 33 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

At this point not having AI would be a selling point.

[–] Magnum@infosec.pub 27 points 1 day ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (1 children)

I wish they would have talked about how many trees you need to offset an ecosia AI search

[–] Resonosity@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 19 hours ago

And make AI opt-in rather than opt-out so Ecosia can educate their users

[–] Dojan@pawb.social 1 points 13 hours ago

Climate intelligence. Gods, excuse me while I go fetch my skeleton that was ejected from my body due to the cringe.

[–] UnspecificGravity@piefed.social 5 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

I want to know what economic forces are making it so that having AI, which costs money and very few users actually want, such a forgone conclusion. Who is paying them?

[–] mghackerlady@leminal.space 6 points 19 hours ago

Investors who bought into the hype and the middle managers who are scared of being fired by them