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DuckDuckGo AI Chat (duckduckgo.com)
submitted 6 months ago by MoreCoffee@lemm.ee to c/technology@lemmy.world

DDG is now offering free/private AI chat using several models.

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[-] kinsnik@lemmy.world 83 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

If they are using GPT-3.5 and Claude, that means that they are sending the chats to Open AI and Anthropic, right? How can they assure that the chats are private and not being used in training if they don’t control what other companies do?

Edit: ok, they claim to have agreements with them to delete chats within 30 days and they hide the user IP

[-] TheFeatureCreature@lemmy.world 73 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

DDG's classic "Trust me bro" privacy policy.

I don't dislike DDG and I do use it, but goddamn I'd love to see a public audit of their privacy claims. DDG is closed source and they've only ever given Their Word ^TM^ about their claims. The privacy community puts a lot of faith in DDG despite not being able to test anything it says.

[-] shotgun_crab@lemmy.world 19 points 6 months ago

Every service that claims to be private should be obliged to have a recent public audit available as a proof

[-] TAG@lemmy.world 25 points 6 months ago

That is how DDG search works as well. They take your search query and send it to a regular, data harvesting search engine. The engine does not see your IP address and cannot track you with a cookie but they can monitor the search queries of DDG users in aggregate.

[-] kinsnik@lemmy.world 7 points 6 months ago

True, but anonymized search queries are much less personal than chats

[-] kinsnik@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

True, but anonymized search queries are much less personal than chats

[-] CaptainSpaceman@lemmy.world 23 points 6 months ago

They delete the chats but the metadata is forever

[-] Cheradenine@sh.itjust.works 18 points 6 months ago

They say they proxy the requests. Deleting the chats after 30 days is meaningless, the data has already been utilized.

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