DDG has a noAI portal that filters out AI images and doesn't bother you with summations and things. it's available at noai.duckduckgo.com and you can add it as a separate search engine to Firefox thusly.

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[–] 9 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Google for sure did, you can read about it here: https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-killed-google/

Idk if DDG did similar or if they did, if it is documented.

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  • [–] 5 points 9 months ago

    Note that, reading the article & a recent follow up, it was moreso serving more ads that drove them to make results worse, rather than AI: the article was published in 2024, and refers to events starting in 2019. GPT2 got released around that time, way before ChatGPT (2022).

    Still 100% enshittification though.

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