DuckDuckGo Unveils New Portal for Private Access to AI Models
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DuckDuckGo has unveiled a new platform that offers users the chance to engage with popular AI chatbots in a private manner, ensuring the security and confidentiality of their data.
The platform, found at Duck.ai, is available worldwide and boasts a simplified user interface. It provides access to four AI models: two proprietary ones and two that are open-source. The proprietary models include OpenAI’s GPT-3.5 Turbo and Anthropic’s Claude 3 Haiku, while the open-source options are Meta’s Llama-3 70B and Mistral AI’s Mixtral 8x7b.
One key feature of DuckDuckGo AI Chat is its dedication to maintaining user privacy. Neither DuckDuckGo nor the AI providers can utilize user data for training their models, ensuring that all interactions remain confidential and anonymous. Additionally, DuckDuckC Go anonymizes metadata such as server and IP addresses, making queries appear as if they come directly from the company rather than the individual user.
The company has established agreements with all model creators ensuring that all stored conversations are permanently erased within a span of 30 days, and that none of the discussions on the platform are utilized to train or enhance the models. This approach simplifies the task of maintaining privacy as opposed to modifying privacy settings on each individual service.
In a time when online platforms are increasingly voracious for user data, DuckDuckGo’s AI Chat service represents a significant departure. The firm’s dedication to privacy is an explicit countermeasure to the escalating apprehensions over data harvesting and exploitation in the realm of AI. By offering a private and unidentifiable mode of communication with AI chatbots, DuckDuckGo pioneers a novel norm within the sector.
The AI service from DuckDuckgo is available at no cost within a specified daily boundary, with the business contemplating the introduction of a subscription model to lessen or abolish these restrictions. The framework of the service is intended to augment its search engine, permitting seamless transitions between search functions and AI chat for an enriched investigative operation.
“We consider AI Chat and search as two distinct yet potent instruments to aid in your quest for information, particularly when delving into new subjects. Whether you are shopping or conducting research for a project and need guidance on initiating the process. Under such circumstances, both AI
“Initiating a dialogue with an AI Chat can prompt questions that lead to traditional searches for reviews, prices, or other details. Conversely, beginning with Search might direct you to use AI Chat for additional inquiries to better understand your findings, or to get straightforward responses to new questions that surface apart from the web content you explored.”
DuckDuckGo incorporates AI Chat within its Private Search feature, promoting ease of access for users.
The introduction of DuckDuckGo AI Chat occurs amidst heightened scrutiny over data privacy and usage within the AI sector. This new service is particularly appealing to those concerned with privacy, and it complements the recent introduction of Venice AI by Erik Voorhees. This platform offers an uncensored AI chatbot and image generator, which operates without requiring user accounts or data retention.
The continuous progress in the AI field underscores the ongoing priority of privacy for users. With the rollout of DuckDuckGo AI Chat, the organization emphasizes its dedication to delivering a secure and private environment for AI chatbot interaction.
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