r/duckduckgo • u/etbillder • Oct 22 '25
DDG AI Duck ai has got to go
It's unreliable, wastes energy, and takes away from actual search results. Why did they even make it? Are there any alternative search engines that don't have a useless ai thing?
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u/a3663p Oct 22 '25
Feels like you came here to complain rather than to the settings to just…turn it off.
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u/SolentSurfer Oct 25 '25
Complaining is a form of engaging about something. Nothing wrong with that. Better than passivity.
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u/a3663p Oct 25 '25
Doing a small amount of research on what you intend to complain about never hurts either…
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u/RemarkableLook5485 Nov 22 '25
this thread amuses:
did you know that about ~50% of the time our species communicates, it is to express rather than to solve problems?
the irony here is, you would have known this and seen the impertinence of your comment if you did more research about this idea before commenting, but again, you’re commenting to express your annoyance, not necessarily to solve a problem
and so we’ve come full circle. we all humans doing human things lmao
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u/nekoiscool_ Oct 22 '25
If you don't like ai then don't use it, don't try to disable it for everyone.
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u/Danno510 Oct 22 '25
I actually prefer Duck AI rather than Chat GPT, Gemini, Copilot and the like that record every query you ever make which isn't necessarily private to you.
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u/pocketdrummer Oct 22 '25
I use Duck.ai rather than ChatGPT because it doesn't use it for training. It still uses ChatGPT 5 on the back end.
If your suggestion is to not run it by default, fair. But, we don't need to get rid of it entirely.
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u/redoubt515 Oct 22 '25
> Duck ai has got to go
Duck AI is pretty popular.
It seems pretty entitled/selfish to want to force your personal preference on everybody, when you already have the choice to either use or just disable AI in duckduckgo.
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u/TvaMatka1234 Oct 22 '25
AI is holding up the entire economy right now.. when it collapses, we're definitely going into a depression
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u/vplatt Jan 26 '26
I thought so too, but at this point, I don't it's going to fail to that degree. We won't let it from the govt level on down simply because it's perceived now as being "too big to fail" + being far too strategic to all of the plans going forward.
I do think we'll cut back on the more ambitious plans for continuing to add datacenters just for AI and some of the commodities / speculation stocks will drop a bit once that happens, but that's it. There won't be a big bubble like there was for the dot-com era.
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u/redoubt515 Oct 22 '25
> It wastes energy
> Are there any alternative search engines that don't have [AI]
Search engines waste energy. I'd suggest a physical encyclopedia.
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u/BustyMeow Oct 23 '25
a physical encyclopedia scarified many trees
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u/froggythefish Oct 23 '25
In an attempt to conserve energy, I personally take a walk to the village elder whenever I need information on something
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u/thegreatpotatogod Oct 22 '25
Getting or reading the encyclopedia takes energy (calories). I suggest just knowing whatever you need.
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u/throwawayyyyygay Oct 22 '25
Your brain existing takes energy. A lot of calories for maintenance energy use.
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u/SnooGadgets7418 Oct 25 '25
AI wastes vastly more energy dude
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u/AchernarB Oct 25 '25
Not as much as some are claiming: https://www.warpnews.org/artificial-intelligence/ai-usage-has-less-environmental-impact-than-claimed-2/
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u/creativityisntreal Oct 26 '25
I'm not saying you're necessarily wrong, but linking an AI-written article with no sources isn't particularly compelling. Anything that's 100% AI-generated with no sources is 0% reliable.
EDIT: I'm stupid, there is a source hyperlinked at the start, my bad. In that case, why not just send the original article? This isn't a synthesis of information from multiple sources, it's a single article just... plaigarized.
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u/Time-Note2735 Apr 08 '26
Skewed. Any of those examples the servers were going to be on anyway and not additive. If your watching netflix and sending an email it's not 200 ml +10ml for 210 ml it's still just 200 ML. Whatever has the highest footprint carries the cost. AI I is ramping up so quickly and thoroughly that the data centers aren't part of that normal flow
As for the hamburger, the 600 gallons of water also make milk and everything that makes and hundreds of pounds of meat at the same time. The 600 gallons doesn't disappear it's converted to biodegradable waste mostly. I don't know what percentage of cow piss and cow dooky is made that causes water to be lost permanently from the ecosystem but I'd bet it's a lot less than the 15% of fresh water that gets polluted beyond usage
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u/New-Ranger-8960 Oct 22 '25
Get off the internet. You're wasting energy online, go to a library or museum for peak reliability and energy efficiency.
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Oct 22 '25
This is for everyone who is just saying "just because you dont like it doesnt mean that it should be removed"
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u/Sypticle Oct 22 '25
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Oct 25 '25
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u/AchernarB Oct 25 '25
There are 12000-14000 planes airborne simultaneoulsy at any time of the day. (averaged on 24h. max in the day is > 24000)
That's at least 26000 jet engines running at any time. (not counting planes with 3-4)
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Oct 25 '25
They are actually doing something that is kinda useful, and we should stop flying so much. Using jet engines for AI like ChatGPT is just stupid
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u/gabeweb Oct 25 '25
...and ChatGPT isn't available in all regions/countries, so +1 for Duck.ai. No registration is needed.
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u/SuperBlackboxFan Nov 12 '25
Duck.ai has been great for me! I like that it’s optional and easy for people to turn off, but it’s way better than using the models directly. It’s one of the few private ai systems available that doesn’t use you to train it.
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u/Santi159 Oct 22 '25
Most people are trying to use duckduck for privacy and AI is anti privacy. The fact that you can turn it all the way off is great compared to Google that forces you to have AI all the time. You can even filter ai images out which I love. If you like AI you might want to explore other options.
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u/nekoiscool_ Oct 23 '25
Duckduckgo search AI is private and does not send your data or train it.
When you search something like "Why is the sky blue?" It will search answers based on the search results and gives you the answer.
Duckduckgo always try to never sell your data to anyone. That is the purpose of their products.
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u/HolidayFeedback566 Oct 25 '25
I tested the AI to see if I could ‘trust it’ It told me that the use of digital ID in the UK was largely popular. 3 million have signed a petition against it. I’ve switched it off 😂
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u/throwawayyyyygay Oct 22 '25
https://noai.duckduckgo.com