I got the idea to try it out and it seems helpful altho I would probably always double check its out of my domains or knowledge competencies but seems like decent ways to get “free” ChatGPT-similar outputs
I’m not sure if this counts, but not very
I used DuckDuckGo AI yesterday for the first time to help me debug some python code. I had been staring at my code for an hour without success before and it was instantly able to tell me I forgot a comma in a list. I don’t want to use ChatGPT directly for privacy reasons so it was a huge help.
I use a self hosted version called GPT4all (https://gpt4all.io/index.html?ref=localhost) so I don’t have to worry about data getting out.
Brave’s Assistant I’ve been using since it shipped. It was one of the first to link the articles it was drawing from, in fact even before Bing’s Copilot.
Its pretty useful most of the time for minor things like who starred in what movie, when a particular day is or whether a particular software is still being developed.
But I still prefer actual articles so this has been a good assistance in that regard.
I use the DDG one on a daily basis, but I usually have the GPT model selected.
Have you tried the others or is CGPT generally recognized as the “best” currently?
If this is the DDG AI char page where you Pack from the 4-5 models. Then I use it to access GPT 4 mini.
Of the list it seems to be the best regarding responses. https://lmarena.ai/?leaderboard
There was another maybe better site that compared but same results really.
Other models thst DDG offers may be more “ethical” or at least open sourced.
The other thing you mentioned is slightly different. Ive been using perplexity and find it slightly better then GPT (via DDG) when writing code snippets. Plus I can load the URL.
