As a DuckDuckGo user who uses claude and ChatGPT every day, I don’t want AI features in duck duck go because I probably would never use them. So many companies are adding chatbot features and most of them can’t compete with the big names. Why would I use a bunch of worse LLMs and learn a bunch of new interfaces when I can just use the ones I’m already comfortable with
this post was submitted on 28 Jan 2026
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On DuckDuckGo that is unsurprising
Even without AI, you can’t find Neocities sites there because DuckDuckGo relies on Bing.
There’s noai.duckduckgo.com and lite.duckduckgo.com to help you use DDG without this ai stuff and without having to fiddle with settings. Especially helpful if you frequently open private tabs and then the settings get cleared on normal DDG.
I think most people find something like chatgpt and copilot useful in their day to day lives. LLMs are a very helpful and powerful technology. However, most people are against these models collecting every piece of data imaginable from you. People are against the tech, they're against the people running the tech.
I don't think most people would mind if a FOSS LLM, that's designed with privacy and complete user control over their data, was integrated with an option to completely opt out. I think that's the only way to get people to trust this tech again and be onboard.
I think you may find yourself in the minority.
I'm enjoying how ludicrous the idea of a "privacy friendly AI" is- trained on stolen data from inhaling everyone else's data from the internet, but cares suddenly about "your" data.
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If I understand right, the usefulness of basic questions like "Hey ChatGPT, how long do I boil pasta" is offset by the vast resources needed to answer that question. We just see it as simple and convenient as it tries to invest in its "build up interest" phase and runs at a loss. If the effort to sell the product that way fails, it's going to fund itself by harvesting data.
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We can say maybe a personal LLM trained on data that you actually already own and having the infrastructure being self efficient sure but visual generation llms and data theft isn’t cool
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