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  "publishedAt": "2026-03-15T23:52:37.000Z",
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  "textContent": "> > [...] the AI on DuckDuckGo [...] gave incomplete statement [...]\n>\n> Actually DuckAI is the only AI I have ever interacted with, for the simple reason that it does not require an account. Almost anything and everything requires an account nowadays, and I've already had way too many accounts in my [virtual] life since the mid '90s. However, **DuckAI sucks big time**.\n\nFor these reasons, DuckAI was the only one I was willing to experiment with until 2024, when I came to reject the technology as a wasteful, fraudulent bundle of hollow promises.\n\n\n> I'm willing to accept the idea that it may use geodetection to spit out different results based on the request origin, so it's possible people here living in other countries may not experience the same flood of garbage results.\n\nIt happens to me whether I use European, American, Asiatic or Australasian VPN servers. I have never observed any to fare better or worse, but many queries, in general, will tend to give ‘local’ results, which is useful when I want European and not US results. (Qwant used to be splendid in favouring European sources, even in English, but Qwant Lite has been gone for years, and Qwant’s modern failure in Linux in Pale Moon is well documented.)\n\nI notice that I tend to get Indian word salad most often when attempting to find online sources discussing technical terminology which was more popular in the twentieth century, _ie_ before the web dominated, than today in the West. Two examples I can draw from a hat are _Archaeozoic_ instead of _Archaean_ for the metamorphosed geological formations antedating the Proterozoic, and _thallophyte_ for the lower plants (_viz_ algae, fungi and bacteria), for which you are more likely to get a tired song about evolution and DNA if you dare these days to prefer to treat them in the traditional manner.\n\n\n> And most of all, they can say either \"cannot be done\" or \"I don't know\" easily at any time - something the damned AIs are programmed not to do, ever.:\n\nSycophancy is what everyone attributes to LLM, but I could never witness it myself. Good luck trying to get it to agree with you when virtually the only online attestations of your preferred position are those same worthless Indian sites!\n\n* * *",
  "title": "General Discussion • Re: Is the internet still useful nowadays?",
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