If you use DuckDuckGo as your search engine, be aware the Artificial Intelligence (AI) Assist feature is turned on by default.
For people who don’t want AI used in their DuckDuckGo search results, you’ll need to turn AI Assist off in each of your browsers (desktop and mobile) as well as in the DuckDuckGo app.
Which is what I did.
Continue reading Quick Tip: How to Turn off DuckDuckGo’s Artificial Intelligence (AI) Assist Feature for Search
Rumors about Automattic, the company that owns WordPress.com and Tumblr, making deals with AI (Artificial Intelligence) companies to provide training data scraped from users’ posts was in the news yesterday as 404Media and The Verge reported possible deals.
As you might imagine, many WordPress users were worried about what the rumors might mean for their content and websites.
Continue reading WordPress.com, AI Training, and User Control
Here are a few stories, posts, and resources I’ve read, learned about, and enjoyed over the past month.
Hope you enjoy them, too!
Continue reading What I Found Interesting: February 7, 2024