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AI surveillance should be banned while there is still time
All the same privacy harms with online tracking are also present with AI, but worse.
Gabriel Weinberg
DuckDuckGo founder. Co-author, Super Thinking. Co-author, Traction. Click to read Gabriel Weinberg, by yegg, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.
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Not everyone is using AI for everything
People are consuming AI like they eat meat: some are embracing it, some are limiting their use of it, and some are avoiding it altogether.
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Some surprising things about DuckDuckGo
We have hundreds of easter-egg logos (featuring our friendly mascot Dax Brown) that surface when you make certain queries on our search engine. Our subreddit is trying to catch ‘em all. They’ve certainly caught a lot, currently 504, but we keep adding more so it’s a moving target. The total as of this post is 594. I’m…
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