This is confirmation bias though. Most people using DuckDuckGo are people who care about their privacy and don’t want to search the web using Google, Yahoo, or Bing. Which are all sprinting into the AI search industry. There’s a direct link between people who use DuckDuckGo and being anti-AI.
Whether or not a search engine uses AI doesn’t necessarily say anything about its privacy. DDG already processes your queries and passing the query through an AI doesn’t affect your privacy as long as the AI model is not affected in any way and the query isn’t kept for future AI purposes. But you’re right there’s generally a negative correlation between AI and privacy and also a positive correlation between people who care about privacy and people who don’t like AI, so there’s probably a correlation between DDG users and anti-AI people. However I think you meant to say “selection bias”.
What I’m saying is, the two interests are very heavily linked. Right of privacy people and anti AI people have massive overlap. DuckDuckGo users and anti AI people are also massively overlapped.
This is confirmation bias though. Most people using DuckDuckGo are people who care about their privacy and don’t want to search the web using Google, Yahoo, or Bing. Which are all sprinting into the AI search industry. There’s a direct link between people who use DuckDuckGo and being anti-AI.
Whether or not a search engine uses AI doesn’t necessarily say anything about its privacy. DDG already processes your queries and passing the query through an AI doesn’t affect your privacy as long as the AI model is not affected in any way and the query isn’t kept for future AI purposes. But you’re right there’s generally a negative correlation between AI and privacy and also a positive correlation between people who care about privacy and people who don’t like AI, so there’s probably a correlation between DDG users and anti-AI people. However I think you meant to say “selection bias”.
What I’m saying is, the two interests are very heavily linked. Right of privacy people and anti AI people have massive overlap. DuckDuckGo users and anti AI people are also massively overlapped.
Yes I think you’re right