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[–] crank0271 69 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

The best part of this is that every search you run has the same environmental impact as clearcutting the Amazon

[–] BrianTheeBiscuiteer 6 points 3 weeks ago

This may be the worst side effect. Trading efficiency AND accuracy for flexibility.

[–] BreadstickNinja 38 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Now I'll finally know how many rocks to eat each day, even if I still won't know how many Rs are in "strawberry."

[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Just for the sake of it I asked Gemini advanced how many g are in highlighting:

https://i.imgur.com/SXYikKC.png

AI will replace us all, they said...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

I'm not saying that AI will take over the world but people's fear doesn't come from current AI. It comes from the fact that AI improved massively in just a few years and if it continues to do that, it might become very advanced fairly soon.

[–] PrivacyDingus 24 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

next up on our show "shit people never asked for" ...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

"We have perfectly good search already.." "But it's AI!" "I'll buy your entire stock!"

[–] felixwhynot 22 points 3 weeks ago

I guess we’ll see how it goes here with the hallucinations

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago

The correct answer to "how to plan a road trip on the Amalfi coast" is

"Don't"

[–] coolmojo 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

If someone is interested in AI search, then there is Perplexica which is a self-hosted open source AI powered search engine. It uses your local LLMs instead of OpenAI servers.

[–] justdoitlater 2 points 3 weeks ago

Best reply here, instead of shitting on AI, something usefull! Will try it, thank you!

[–] [email protected] -3 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

What are benefits of using openai search when we already have Kagi that is much more privacy a friendly, is ads free and provides the same functionality?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

It's wild that they are not breaking even with these prices. I've had an annual subscription since January and made nearly 5000 searches. Extrapolating to a year, I will have been paying about $0.17 per search. If that would go to the electricity bill then it corresponds to about 1 kWh of energy per search, enough to run a 50-watt laptop PC for 20 hours.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago

they got very defensive about disclosing their search sources ever since the Brave thing, lol https://kagifeedback.org/d/5185-more-detailed-information-about-search-sources

[–] [email protected] -2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

My question was about benefits of openai search compared to kagi search. How is this link related to my question?

[–] LesserAbe 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

The linked post goes into detail about why the author views Kagi as not privacy oriented, and that in the author's opinion Kagi is overly focused on AI. (And was originally started as an AI company)

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

And that is very strange for me. Under the news about AI-search from OpenAI I asked about comparison with AI-search from Kagi, but got a lot of downvotes and a link to the post where the author express his negative opinion about AI.

[–] LesserAbe 1 points 3 weeks ago

I think it would have helped for the person who posted that to include context, but I would guess they were linking because it also talks about how Kagi isn't privacy focused.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

I'm intrigued by Kagi and maybe I'll try it. I like the business model of subscription instead of being the product. I don't mind paying for my privacy. It's not FOSS though, so we may never know if they're not reselling our data.