That’s fair enough! Thankfully they do let you disable it, which is nice. I mostly like that they are quite transparent about how they operate! The planting trees thing is a nice bonus, but they certainly aren’t saints to the environment, no search engine is
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axolotl_cpp@feddit.it@feddit.it 1 day ago Ecosia also has an LLM which make little sense with their mission IMO
sbeak@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
Hueristic_Autistic@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Chat gpt says the search results are served by Bing and Google. You’re not escaping Google, just the AI.
DreadPirateShawn@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
Thus the “working towards an independent European search index” part of the comment you ignored while talking with your autocomplete bot.
Hueristic_Autistic@lemmy.world 1 day ago
No I saw it but because the question would’ve been answered by Google anyways before the gemini thing I just used chatgpt to ask it who services Ecosia like servicing Mint. If they took away Ai, we’d still have the answer box that Google would’ve given and then we’d still have to double check our sources.
Did we all forget that Google used to give give an answer at the top of the page before Ai?
Bro, stop. Get some help. At least check the sources it used…
Hueristic_Autistic@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
You know what’s kind of funny, is that there was a solid decade of people saying google it instead of just having a human conversation and giving their personal experiences and answers based off of what that person knew and then you’d do your own research after your friend or family member would give you an answer to the question you asked.
What’s the difference between that and chatgpt?
Okay nvmd to the previous person, you certainly need more help. How can anyone write something so fucked up with a straight face… this sounds like the first stages of AI psychosis. Seriously, if you believe LLM prompting to be that you need help asap, not even shitting around anymore.
Hueristic_Autistic@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Well I did double check it by simply googlong it and what do you knwo even Ecosia says it on their site Image