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But doesn’t work on mobile

Not just that, I doubt the motor would be particularly happy with all the vibrations happening to it.

Fair. I could with Firefox, but I’m too lazy to configure all of that for myself.

Datacenters are often ahead on this, I believe.

DDG does add their own spice on to – or so they claim, and Bing doesn’t have bangs so I’d never want to use it.

In its early days, Qwant heavily relied on Bing’s API to provide search results. […]

Qwant began transitioning to its own indexing system in February 2013, but this process was gradual. The company started using its own engine for indexing social media accounts and the “shopping” part of search results, […]

Today, Qwant’s search results are a mix of its own indexed content and results pulled from Bing.

https://thedroidguy.com/does-qwant-search-use-bing-search-results-ultimate-guide-1265864

I was curious if it relied on Bing, as most 3rd party search engines do. Which seems to be the case.

JSON!

I don’t entirely disagree with the comic at the end; but given the current systems in place I doubt the robots will be used to support the masses and rather enrich the few.

Of all the alternatives, it is the most major one.
(Except for Apple devices where Safari is an option).

Pretty sure @jqubed@lemmy.world meant to explain why they weren’t a thing in cars in general

But you had all these rightwing weirdos complaining they were being censored because “the algorithm” didn’t promote their weird little ideas enough!

Back when.
So tweaking the algorithm is quite literally censorship!

Not that this “free-speech absolutist” has proven particularly true to his word.

Every other few days there’s “news” of another meme coin rug pull

AI hallucinates and generates jibberish when you’re asking it to generate text about edge cases and knowledge bases which aren’t commonly talked about.

I’ve had AI give me examples which were could’ve been right but were wrong in the given context. I don’t find it too difficult to believe it could use details from one file format to supplant knowledge for another.

Go ask chat.openai.com

(The current version of) ChatGPT may not be the ai used to generate these articles.

The website that she refers to in her video, and the massively wrong verbiage in the paragraphs proceeding, is definitely not “AI Slop”

That’s may be true for some, but the hourlong podcast ‘discussion’ on the file format was definitely AI generated.

According to the company, CMG Local Solutions’ access to advertising data based on voice and other data is collected by third-party platforms and devices “under the terms and conditions provided by those apps and accepted by their users.”

In the since-deleted blog post, CMG Local Solutions discusses whether Active Listening is legal. “We know what you’re thinking. Is this even legal? The short answer is: yes. It is legal for phones and devices to listen to you. When a new app download or update prompts consumers with a multi-page terms of use agreement somewhere in the fine print, Active Listening is often included,” the company said in the post.

https://variety.com/2023/digital/news/active-listening-marketers-smartphones-ad-targeting-cox-media-group-1235841007/

Except it is also listening. This was a minor scandal back in September. I believe Cox media has since been dropped by Facebook and Google and such, but it happened.

What’s Happening: In a pitch deck that has surfaced since the initial story broke out, Cox Media Group (CMG), a digital marketing outfit based out of Atlanta, Georgia, was spotted touting “the power of voice” in a pitch. In it, they outlined how they can use AI to collect and analyze voice data from users through more than 470 sources.

https://news.itsfoss.com/ad-company-listening-to-microphone/

Sam:

Where have you heard about that?

I can think of a counter example in how Netflix is boasting about the revenue of its cheaper ad tier.

It’s the official bang for Startpage. You can’t configure custom bangs in DDG; Kagi can do that.

Oh, like so. When you said “same” I assumed you meant Google as well, and I found !s to be an intuitive bang for that. Startpage makes more sense, I know they get their results through Google.

I’ve found DDG/bing’s results to be quite lacking.

It seems our experiences have been different, then.

but with !s

Is that built-in, or do you have to configure it yourself? Configuring one is fine, but DDG has quite a few I semi-frequently use (!i, !g, !gi, !yt, !w, !gt), even Google itself feels like a downgrade when I want to search an image and I manually have to click the ‘images’ tab after performing my query.

It’s much more convenient to just have good search results to begin with though

I agree, which is why I’ve been happy to continue using DDG.

I keep hearing about Kagi, maybe I should try it sometime.

DDG has been quite serviceable to me, however. If I can’t find something I can just add a quick !g to my already existing query and look it up on Google instead, which I’ve found rather convenient.