Keeping your chat data private is one way to feel safer in the new era of artificial intelligence.
One of the bigger concerns about AI chat is privacy and using your chat history for more chatbot training. DuckDuckGo has you covered, with its new AI chat feature free to use in any browser (daily query limits notwithstanding).
You can access private AI chats through duck.ai, duckduckgo.com/chat, or the Chat tab of the DuckDuckGo browser. The company's system works with Open AI's GPT 3.5 Turbo, Anthropic's Claude 3 Haiku, Meta Llama 3 and Mistral's Mixtral 8x7B (the latter two are open source).
"Chat content is private, we anonymize it, and is not used for any AI model training," the company writes on its website.
DuckDuckGo's AI chat doesn't save any of your conversations, and you can delete them at any time via the little flame button (similar to the button that clears multiple tabs in the DuckDuckGo mobile app). The company deletes your IP address and forwards your query to an artificial intelligence model of your choice, thus keeping you anonymous as an individual.
DuckDuckGo also promises improvements soon, such as more chat models and more ways to access AI chat through the browser. We might even see higher daily usage limits or paid plans to access more advanced AI models.
“Our mission is to show the world how easy it can be to protect your privacy online,” the company writes on its website. “We believe people should be able to use the internet and other digital tools without sacrificing their privacy in the process. privacy."
Another benefit here is the ability to access multiple AI models in one interface, allowing you to try out various chatbots to see how they work and how they differ.
The company sees search and AI chat as being compatible, not competing. You might start by chatting with an AI bot, narrowing down your ideas, and then move on to search when you're closer to what you're actually looking for.
