DuckDuckGo's latest product is a pair of ordinary sunglasses, with no added features such as video recording or generative AI integration. Part marketing campaign and part wearable...
    • Jax@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      7 minutes

      People will constantly cry about the fact that I’m not putting on sunscreen while they’re going out in the sun without sunglasses.

      People are dumb. I could technically remove a cancerous mole myself, I can’t remove eye cancer myself. Or somehow unfuck my eyes once they’re damaged.

  • Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    59 minutes

    I took the time to read the fine print, and these glasses appear to sense the vector of reflected light and specifically filter out waves with a horizontal orientation. The processimg power needed to do this will mean these must have an uncomfortably large battery or require frequent charging.

  • XLE@piefed.socialEnglish
    7 hours

    DuckDuckGo should apply this lesson to their search engine!

      • Godort@lemmy.caEnglish
        7 hours

        I maintain that this should be the default behavior and the AI be opt-in

        • Fizz@lemmy.nzEnglish
          6 hours

          AI is the future of search and I dont see anyway that changes. The user experience of AI search is way to good, average users love the summary at the top of their search. Almost every report i’ve seen shows over 50% of people using AI for search and that tracks with what I see in people i know in real life.

          I’m a DDG user and I do not want them to handicap themselves to pass a purity test.

          • AstralPath@lemmy.caEnglish
            4 hours

            Then opt in. We shouldn’t have to opt out to avoid padding the AI numbers.

            • Fizz@lemmy.nzEnglish
              1 hour

              Its a generalized product targeting average people. Average people dont care AI/No AI they want the results and they use the AI summaries. If DDG hid it then they would just think it doesnt exist and go use google which provides them faster more convenient results.

          • XLE@piefed.socialEnglish
            4 hours

            AI is the future

            Thought terminating cliches are the future of online discourse.

            The user experience of AI search is way to good

            Search engine companies went out of their way to make normal searches worse, and then introduced AI search to keep you on their sites.

            I thought everybody at this point understood enshittification at this point, but if not: of course a project at the first stage of enshittification acts better than a different product at the third stage of it.

            • Fizz@lemmy.nzEnglish
              1 hour

              Its not a thought terminating cliche if you didnt cut the next word out. You can argue if AI is the future of search, I think there is a strong case that its proven very good at general information retrieval.

              How did search engine companies go out of their way to make normal searches worse? I search I get relevant results and its been that way for the past 20 years. Nothing has changed that has made search worse than it was 5 years ago. The only change is that people have recently gotten a choice between a google search or a chatgpt question and they were increasingly choosing chatgpt. fast forward to current day and that divide has only increased.

          • Zarobi@aussie.zoneEnglish
            4 hours

            Personally I actually like the A.I. summaries… IF it shows its sources. That way it essentially acts as it should, a summary of the search results, and I can click the link that actually is relevant to what I wanted to find in the first place. It skips that step where you have to open the first 5 links and comb through them to find which one is the useful one.

            I know most people don’t click those links and just trust the summary directly, but it’s important to me personally. Unfortunately those links only appear sometimes, often you just get plain text with no links.

            • Fizz@lemmy.nzEnglish
              1 hour

              On DDG you get the sources its summarizing from. Im not sure about google, i dont use it.

          • PRIMEcavitationfetishist@quokk.auEnglish
            4 hours

            Its wrong though. Its wrong so fucking often. There’s no way to fix that. I stopped using ddg because of this. Pandering to right wing idiots does not necessarily mean being smart, that’s thatcherite Nazi coddling lies.

        • XLE@piefed.socialEnglish
          7 hours

          Exactly my thoughts.

          DuckDuckGo enjoys default search engine status on a lot of browsers, and many of them make it difficult to set a custom one. Especially mobile browsers, and apparently even Safari makes it a pain.

    • evenglow@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7 hours

      DuckDuckGo has taken a clear stance on generative AI and other LLM-based tools, having asked users whether they wanted AI results fully integrated into search. An overwhelming majority said no, which is why the company now keeps AI content and interactions confined to a separate page.

      • XLE@piefed.socialEnglish
        7 hours

        This is what I get when I run a DuckDuckGo search in a private window. Sure doesn’t look separate to me.

        lAzB2YZIme70lJw.png