DuckDuckGo AI Chat offers anonymous access to popular chatbots, protecting user privacy.
The company does not store personal data, ensuring chats remain anonymous and deleting info after 30 days.
Daily usage limits and lack of internet access are constraints, but DuckDuckGo may enhance AI capabilities.
AI-powered tech is everywhere, but using it often comes with a hidden cost: your privacy. AI tech companies typically collect and store user data, including any personal information you share, to train their AI models and improve output, be that an AI chatbot, image generator, or otherwise.
Now, privacy-focused search engine DuckDuckGo has stepped up to provide an alternative, and its AI Chat offers anonymous access to a host of generative AI chatbots.
DuckDuckGo is well-known for its privacy-friendly search engine , which, unlike most other options, doesn’t collect and store heaps of data as you use it. DDG is extending its push for privacy into the world of AI chatbots, as its AI Chat lets you have anonymous conversations with popular AI chat models, including OpenAI’s ChatGPT 3.5 Turbo, Anthropic’s Claude 3 Haiku, Mistral AI’s Mixtral 8x7B, and Meta’s Llama 3 70B.
DuckDuckGo AI Chat is currently free to use within a daily usage limit. However, the company might introduce a paid version with additional features and more language models in the future.
It’s a novel idea. Other services combine multiple AI chatbots into a single tool, but DuckDuckGo’s AI Chat will make it easier for users to use some of the best AI chatbots while maintaining some privacy.
How DuckDuckGo AI Chat Keeps Your Chats Private
Privacy is a rare commodity in the digital era, more so when it comes to interacting with AI chatbots. Generative AI chatbots are data-hungry, as they rely on large data sets to continuously train and improve their language models. For instance, ChatGPT stores your chat history for as long as you have an account.
As noted inDuckDuckGo’s AI Chat privacy and terms of use page, the company does not store personally identifiable information. By removing metadata containing personal information like your IP address before sending your prompts to one of the third-party AI models it supports, DuckDuckGo ensures that your chats remain anonymous.
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