A search engine that specializes in protecting user privacy DuckDuckGo,Thursday's official announcement opens DuckDuckGo AI Chat to users for freeThis is an option to anonymously access OpenAI GPT 3.5 Turbo, Anthropic's Claude 3 Haiku, Meta Llama 3, Mixtral 8x7B's generative AI Chatbot.. Officials also claim to be planning to increase the number of accessible chatbot models in the future.
DuckDuckGo AI Chat essentially acts as an intermediary between the user and the generative AI chatbot.Sends the content the user needs to ask to a designated generative AI chatbot and removes all metadata that may contain the user's personal information prior to sending itInstead of the user's IP address, the generative AI chatbot ultimately captures only the IP address of the DuckDuckGo AI Chat to anonymize the AI chat.
DuckDuckGo notes that some AI service providers "may temporarily store chat logs," but these logs will be deleted within 30 days to ensure that the content will not be used for AI model training.
DuckDuckGo AI Chat is free for users to use though.However, there is still a limit to the number of times it can be used per dayThis is done only to prevent bad actors and abuse, normal use by ordinary users will generally not touch the upper limit, interested partners can beClick here to experience.
The company is also currently considering a paid version of the DuckDuckGo AI Chat chat, which would raise the daily usage limit and offer more expensive AI model options.