Comment on Meet the AI vegans: They are choosing to abstain from using artificial intelligence for environmental, ethical and personal reasons. Maybe they have a point

UltraBlack@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• Malek061@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Duck duck go

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  • Nalivai@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Unfortunately, it’s not better and also shows slop

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    • RickyRigatoni@retrolemmy.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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      • hildegarde@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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    • Krompus@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      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 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.

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      • astutemural@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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      • Nalivai@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I was trying to use it for a long time, but the results are never fine for me. The situation when I search for something specific, the duck shows me nothing, and the google shows me exactly what I need is far too often for me to completely switch.
        Granted, I don’t keep cookies, I use all the adblocks possible, and I disabled google’s LLM bullshit, otherwise google is borderline unusable.

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• JigglySackles@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  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.

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• Fish@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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• Inkstainthebat@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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  • UltraBlack@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’m gonna go a step further and recommend searx :)

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• Goldholz@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I use my boyfriends own browser. Boyfriend, please explain it:

  Soooo, it’s called searXNG. It’s a metasearch engine I host locally. It searches across multiple search engines, like duck duck go and others. And then shows the results as a normal webpage. It also changes your “fingerprint” per every search, and every search/result is proxied through the server. If you wanna try it out, you can use (public instance): searx.bndkt.io But you can easily host it locally from the source or with docker.

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  • UltraBlack@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’m using searx, too, but google’s results still stand to be some of the most relevant.

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• Zacryon@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Have you tried Ecosia?

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  • Telemachus93@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Not OP. I’ve been using Ecosia for years and was glad they didn’t do the AI summary shit so far… But a few days ago I got an AI summary on Ecosia as well. I fear they’re also hopping on this train and in that case I’ll look for another search engine.

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  • UltraBlack@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Isn’t ecosia just using google’s results?

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