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Google's AI-powered search summaries use 10x more energy than a standard Google search | The Hidden Environmental Impact of AI (jacobin.com)
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[โ€“] jfx@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 4 months ago (1 children)

DDG has also gotten much worse since the introduction of AI features.

[โ€“] ArchRecord@lemm.ee 6 points 4 months ago

I haven't had any problems myself.

In fact, I regularly use their anonymized LLM Chat tab to help out with restructuring data, summarizing some more complex topics, or finding some info that doesn't readily appear near the top of search. It's made my search experience (again, specifically in my circumstance) much better than before.