“We believe people should be able to use the Internet and other digital tools without feeling like they need to sacrifice their privacy in the process,” reads the post. “Developing products that add a layer of privacy to the everyday things they do online… first with search, then browsing, email, and now with generative AI via AI Chat.”
“In the industry-wide race to integrate generative AI, there’s a lot of pressure to add AI features just for the sake of saying you have them. We’re taking a different approach.” – DuckDuckGo
How To Use DuckDuckGo AI Chat
The feature – which isn’t mandatory and can be turned off – works through duck.ai, duckduckgo.com/chat or through the company’s ‘bang’ shortcuts (!ai and !chat).
Once you’re there, you can carry out your anonymous query with a few simple steps:
- Pick a chat model. (Currently available are Open AI’s ChatGPT 3.5 Turbo, Anthropic’s Claude 3 Haiku and open-source models Meta Llama 3 and Mistral’s Mixtral 8x7B)
- Check and agree to DuckDuckGo’s privacy policy and terms of use
- Enter your query or use the prompts provided
It’s really as simple as that. If you’ve used AI chatbots before, it will all be very familiar and you still have the option to amend, narrow or sharpen your queries in the usual way.
Use of DuckDuckGo AI Chat is currently free, although the company is implementing an undefined daily limit. It says that it aims to maintain a free tier in the future, but is “exploring a paid plan for access to higher limits and more advanced (and costly) chat models.”
Source: Want to Use ChatGPT in Private? Here’s How With DuckDuckGo
