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Today's Topics:
1. Duck's AI-assisted searches (David)
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Date: Mon, 26 May 2025 13:10:52 +1000
From: David <[email protected]>
To: Link <[email protected]>
Subject: [LINK] Duck's AI-assisted searches
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Linkers may be interested in the careful way DuckDuckGo is integrating
AI-assisted searches in their search engine - see
https://spreadprivacy.com/ai-feature-upgrade/ This is a longish article, but
worth reading IMO.
> Recent updates to AI-assisted answers include expanding sources across the
> web, beyond just Wikipedia; answering English-language queries outside the
> U.S.; and adding customization that lets you decide how often you want
> answers to appear: often, sometimes (default), on-demand, or never
In particular, I note that AI-assisted searches were initially limited to
Wikipedia, assessed as a "reliable" source. Another OpenSource engine known as
Marginalia from a Swedish developer - https://marginalia-search.com/ -
prioritises searches from non-commercial sources and users can even restrict
them to Academia.
It will be interesting to see if these developments mark fragmentation of the
'net into reliable sources of information and what used to be called the
"yellow press".
That's just another facet of its' evolution noted elsewhere recently: early
Internet searches returned such good results because most sources _were_ in
fact responsibly written, factual, and in many cases came from Academia. But
the 'net is now full of opinions, propaganda, advertising, and common-or-garden
rubbish which introduces noise into AI's factor correlations.
_David Lochrin_
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