Enjoy private access to Open AI's GPT 3.5 Turbo and other leading AI Chat thanks to the privacy protection of the DuckDuckGo search engine and browser.
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SUMMARY
- DuckDuckGo introduces AI Chat, offering access to various AI models while prioritizing the protection of user data.
- Although AI conversations may be temporarily stored, DuckDuckGo removes the data and ensures that the data is deleted within 30 days.
- The app is now available with a daily usage limit for the free version, while a paid version is planned that will offer more advanced models.
It would be hard to find a company that isn't trying to get into AI these days. But no matter how much investment Google and Microsoft make, their respective efforts in machine learning seem to be fraught with security concerns. DuckDuckGo, the beloved privacy-focused search engine, is testing AI with a brand new chatbot, but as you'd expect from the company, it's arriving with a focus on the security of your data.
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Today, DuckDuckGo unveiled its Private AI Chat, which lets users access AI models like Open AI’s GPT 3.5 Turbo, Anthropic’s Claude 3 Haiku , and Meta’s Llama 3 completely anonymously. The company promises that whatever you do with these chatbots stays between you and these tools and — more importantly — isn’t used to train future or existing models. Given how controversial AI training has become in the last year, it’s hard to imagine that this wouldn’t be a significant advantage for DuckDuckGo’s tools here.
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Today’s announcement comes with a few caveats. While conversations aren’t stored or logged — similar to any query you might have on the search engine — DuckDuckGo warns that its supported models may cache your conversations to provide answers. The company emphasized in today’s announcement that all data is completely stripped from these logs, and that agreements made when building these AI chatbots mean that everything is deleted from the servers within 30 days.
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By comparing these details to OpenAI’s privacy policy, however, you can see how much of a difference this stance can make. Without even delving into this document, the differences become immediately apparent.
Aside from those details, the app is now available and accessible to anyone interested, with a few caveats. DuckDuckGo has set a daily usage limit for the free version, but it has plans to introduce a paid version that will increase that limit. The paid plan will also offer more advanced models, according to DuckDuckGo’s roadmap for expanding its browser entry points and conversational models.
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If you want to give it a try, you’ll find these tools on duck.ai, available via keyboard shortcuts in search, and available in the DuckDuckGo search engine toolbar. And if you’re absolutely sick of the thought of AI chatbots — or just not looking for one — you can turn them off entirely in your settings. This is a feature that Google and others should consider adding to their own AI tools.
Source: androidpolice
