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DDG is now offering free/private AI chat using several models.

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[–] kinsnik@lemmy.world 82 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (17 children)

If they are using GPT-3.5 and Claude, that means that they are sending the chats to Open AI and Anthropic, right? How can they assure that the chats are private and not being used in training if they don’t control what other companies do?

Edit: ok, they claim to have agreements with them to delete chats within 30 days and they hide the user IP

[–] TAG@lemmy.world 23 points 7 months ago (5 children)

That is how DDG search works as well. They take your search query and send it to a regular, data harvesting search engine. The engine does not see your IP address and cannot track you with a cookie but they can monitor the search queries of DDG users in aggregate.

[–] Squizzy@lemmy.world -1 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Ddg doesnt work for search anymore, completely compromised giving the same results as google and others, exact same bubble you are in. I dont want personalisation

[–] lud@lemm.ee 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

It works very well for me still. I haven't noticed anything weird.

[–] Squizzy@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

Hooefully it stays like that for you. For me I use it on all devices but they are all independent. If I search a random name it will find doctors etc. close to me with that name, down to my town. If I turn off location I will get a few general results and then back to localised.

It is incredibly annoying, especially when doing research as I cannot get out of the localised loop. Recently I needed a legislative policy from France but could not remember the name of the policy so I searched for the intention of the policy and got local results by local papers and local politicians discussing similar legislation. I could not get to the French results without using a VPN and I got very different results then.

There is also the concern then that ddg are sending my IP with the query. So I get bad results and no privacy.

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