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It should never be by default. I like the way Kagi handles it, you have to invoke it.
Money bags over there. Paying for search engines, la ti da.
I don’t pay for search. Don’t be ridiculous.
My butler does it for me.
AI integration is almost never due to public demand.
Thus, most of the eco-harmful data center usage is for providing answers that are ignored.
Summary created by Smart Answers AI
My dude, read the room.
The AI is autistic
This was from months ago. I thought it was weird when I saw the title I thought are they doing a new poll? But no this articles from January. Believe me everyone on Lemmy saw this when it first happened.
I don’t want Ai but want some deterministic answers. For example “12+20” should return 32, I don’t need paragraphs explaining. What is the hex color code for red? FF0000. What is - 40 degrees c in f? This one is easy as it’s - 40.
I don’t want paragraphs explaining this stuff. I don’t want it telling me how much of a math genius I am. Just give me the answer.
Things that have multiple answers like “what are good Scifi books” or “how do I write fizz buzz in c” send me to other sites.
I’m not sure if you are aware, but “12+20,” “color picker red,” and “what is -40 degrees c in f” already give you the answers you want in DuckDuckGo without needing to click on a search result.
Things that have multiple answers like “what are good Scifi books” or “how do I write fizz buzz in c” send me to other sites.
Problem is that a casual search is already impossible because the internet is already an AI wasteland. There is mostly Reddit, Wikipedia and forums left to look for real answers. Everything else is already pages after pages of AI slob. I’m not gonna wade through this. So it’s “reddit best scifi books” or I just get the AI result and take it to Wikipedia.
Probably 1 in 50 searches, I find that AI adds some value. Nothing that I couldn’t work around, but it can save 2 or 3 additional searches and sometimes it gives better links than the main search does.
Usually my searches are good enough to give me the answer in the first few results.
Whenever I see AI pop up and I don’t need it, I just feel like it’s a huge waste. I do have it turned off on DDG.
The AI generated search blurb is annoying but easy to scroll past (I usually use a cookieless browser so the dismissal option doesn’t work from session to session). What really annoys me are the AI generated websites that pop up as search results. All of them are formatted basically the same so it’s easy to spot after clicking in, but that wastes a lot of time vs previously being able to just scan the preview text.
If you use DDG, set up a search source with the url https://noai.duckduckgo.com/ Then you can have no ai and no cookies.
This worked! Very excited to stop having to see that, thanks!
In case anyone else runs across this I chose “add a search engine” in my browser and used the address above plus “search/?q=%s” and it works like a charm:)
For me, I only use AI search if I can’t find the answer I’m looking for in the first page of the results and I’m good with accepting a “guess” over a definitive source.
On Kagi with AI off by default it’s a matter of just appending a
?to the end of my search query. I have done this 3-4 times in total. I average about 1,000 searches/month.
Luckily there’s https://noai.duckduckgo.com/
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And yet it’s on by default.
I use DDG. I know I can turn off the AI summaries, but sometimes they’re useful for gaming stuff.
You don’t say? What a shocker.
I’d like it more if it actually read the sources it gives and copied an answer from them (google used to do this before LLMs)
a couple examples of it not reading the sources it provides
BY doesn’t stand for anything*, unlike the other letter pairs in CC licenses. Neither of the pages listed as a source mention this, and wikipedia (the third result) specifically says it’s not an abbreviation
Neither of the sources given say this, they only talk about heavy metals in protein powders
*The definition of ‘stands for’ that I’ve always heard refers specifically to acronyms. Notably, wiktionary disagrees with me here, but if you also disagree with me then that reveals another example:
(Neither of the pages mention the meaning of “stands for”, though wikipedia does use it to refer to acronyms)
