The privacy-focused search engine DuckDuckGo offers a free version of AI Chat, which uses popular AI systems but does not transmit user data to them.
In terms of search engine market share, DuckDuckGo manages to in die Top Five; At the beginning of 2022, the search engine exceeded the 100 billion searches mark. The company behind it advertises privacy excessively and has been providing various features for years to ensure this for users. Its own browser was presented in spring 2024But since many people now use AI tools and especially chatbots to carry out their searches, DuckDuckGo also has a privacy-centric solution in store for this context.
AI Chat on DuckDuckGo offers choice and protects data
Tech expert Saadh Jawwadh points out via Threads an AI chat feature on DuckDuckGo that can promote data protection.
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Wer access the AI Chat via the search enginecan choose between four options for AI models. All of them can provide different information and open up different perspectives, the company explains. These are GPT-4o mini from OpenAI, Claude 3 Haiku from Anthropic, Llama 3.1 70B from Meta and Mixtral 8x 7B from Mistral AI. The last two models are available as open source.
The privacy policy and terms of use then point out that DuckDuckGo does not store any prompts or output. In addition, the company contacts the model operators on behalf of the users and does not pass on any personal data such as IP addresses.
Chats are private, anonymized by us, and not used for any AI model training,
says a Blog post from June.
Just like searches on DuckDuckGo, all chats are anonymous and can’t be traced back to you. Find out more: https://t.co/RjSzPaprMB
— DuckDuckGo (@DuckDuckGo) June 7, 2024
At the same time, the company points out that the output could be unreliable, incomplete, incorrect or even offensive. The AI chat should also only be used by users aged 13 and over. Those who agree to the terms and conditions can use the beta version of the chat – free of charge.
You can find out more about the feature on the DuckDuckG websiteYou can also simply try out the diverse chat function yourself and compare the results of the individual models.
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