Not sure who is doing this exactly, if it’s DDG or Reddit or someone else. I was looking for a comparison of epic vs steam and noticed that the description of the search result is AI-generated, instead of actually showing anything from the thread.

A user asks why they should buy games on Steam rather than Epic, and gets various answers from other users. Some of the reasons include Steam’s features, performance, community, and exclusivity.

  • emb@lemmy.worldEnglish
    301·
    2 days ago

    I agree, this is annoying. It’s taking the place of what used to be an excerpt, giving me a hint about actual text on the page.

    I haven’t seen that yet… hopefully it’s on the Duckduckgo side and a setting I can turn off. But it’s probably Reddit continuing to be frustrating.

    I’m not against having the AI summary and I do see the utility, it should just be very clearly separated from the real content.

    • SatyrSack@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
      22·
      2 days ago

      From what I understand, this is a Bing bug feature that makes its way “downstream” to DuckDuckGo results. Someone please correct me if I am wrong.