I’m talking about for anything.

I ask because, although I am wary about the effects of AI and things made with it, I can’t help but notice it’s becoming a bigger part of my every day life.

It’s just so convenient to use it as an assistant where I can get answers to difficult or obscure questions on the fly.

I’m imaging this might be part of the ploy by AI companies. Once AI is so integrated in our lives, we won’t want to do without it. It’d be like taking away electricity.

  • cally [he/they]@pawb.socialEnglish
    2·
    1 day ago

    Very rarely on purpose. Last time I willingly used a chatbot for something was like ~7 months ago IIRC. Sometimes I am searching random things up in incognito (so it doesn’t pollute my browsing history) and DuckDuckGo shows the stupid AI overview because of course, in incognito it’s not gonna know that I specifically disabled their “AI” features. It should be opt-in!!!

    Yes, they’re kinda useful by themselves, but in a search engine? Sure, it can filter results or whatever, but it’s just easier for me to go to a website I know and look for the info there.

    Also, I don’t like chatbots because usually I just want to search one thing and leave - and to me, it doesn’t feel like that’s what they were designed for. They’re meant for “conversation” but I don’t want to talk to a bot. There are, of course, a plethora of other reasons why I don’t like LLMs, which I won’t be getting into in this reply.

    • wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      3·
      1 day ago

      In ddg, you can customize your options and on the right there’s a button/box to get the specific ddg link with them all pre-set. Replace the normal ddg “link” for your search bar with that one and you don’t need to worry about cookies or settings following you.

      • Sergio@piefed.socialEnglish
        1·
        23 hours ago

        Pardon me, but is it possible to do this in Firefox?

        I like the ddg search engine but dislike the “keyboard shortcuts” setting. From your advice, it looks like I can turn it off in a URL with https://duckduckgo.com/?kbj=1&kk=-1 which is a great start.

        Ideally I’d like to be able to type my search query in the address bar, hit enter, and have it search with that URL (i.e. without keyboard settings) by default. You say “Replace the normal ddg “link” for your search bar with that one…” but I can’t figure out how to do that in Firefox. Any tips? Thanks.