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Satya Nadella insists people are using Microsoft’s Copilot AI a lot (techcrunch.com)
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[–] 15 points 8 months ago (9 children)

That'd be my guess.

I have never once went out of my way to use Gemini, for example, but having it appear in every other Google search with some lying bullshit to spread is probably driving up their engagement numbers.

I really should stop using Google. But can't use DDG either because they just use Bing and their own AI service as well, and so does Kagi.

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  • [–] 15 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    If it helps, you can use https://noai.duckduckgo.com/ to stop the auto-AI inserts.

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  • [–] -2 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    Yeah but you can do the same with Google as well (just can't be arsed to change the search settings on my work PC), it's the principle of the thing.

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  • [–] 13 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    So you can’t be arsed to live up to your own principles?

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago*

    I can't be arsed to keep up with changing the config of the browser I didn't choose every time the device updates with new admin-defined settings. That's all.

    On my personal device I still use Google right now for consistency/because change is hard, but I set the default behavior in Firefox to exclude AI results.

    I'd just prefer to use/support a search engine that abstains from AI entirely, regardless of whether or not you can turn it off. I don't want to be a happy customer of companies that still try to weasel that stuff in, because they won't stop at a toggle. They never do.

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