Similar to DuckDuckGo’s emphasis on protecting users’ privacy and security in the past, when using the DuckAssist function, users do not need to log in to any personal account. At the same time, all information that interacts with the DuckAssist function will not be is provided to OpenAI and Anthropic, and DuckDuckGo will not Use this information to train AI models.
Just as Microsoft and Google started applying artificial intelligence to their search services, DuckDuckGo also announced that it has collaborated with OpenAI and Anthropic on artificial intelligence technology. Through the digital assistant service called DuckAssist, it will help users to understand the key points of the content of the web page statement more quickly, or It is to answer the user’s questions in an interactive natural language way.
However, the DuckAssist digital assistant service does not appear on all web pages at any time, but is only available on specific web page content, and answers relevant questions by linking to Wikipedia or Encyclopedia Britannica.
At the same time, DuckDuckGo also prevents DuckAssist from accessing too much data from the Internet, avoiding situations like Microsoft’s new Bing search service that reacts severely to wrong answers, or the answer is wrong.
Currently, the DuckAssist function is still only in the beta stage, but DuckDuckGo said that it will continue to expand the availability of this function in the future, and allow it to access more network reference materials, while also avoids abnormal situations during operation.
Similar to DuckDuckGo’s emphasis on protecting users’ privacy and security in the past, when using the DuckAssist function, users do not need to log in to any personal account. At the same time, all information that interacts with the DuckAssist function will not be is provided to OpenAI and Anthropic, and DuckDuckGo will not Use this information to train AI models.
