the fact that duckduckgo has an AI thing at the top of the search results which DOESN’T answer in character as a duck, or even quack several times between each sentence, is, i think, a shocking betrayal and a demonstration of utmost cowardice
@jk yeah. what is this abject lack of whimsy
@jk just like the Bear. The Bounty Bear! He's searching! He's searching!

@th @jk holy crap I have to watch that movie again!

And wings of desire
And far away so close

@th @jk oh, and brainstorm, which is similar to until the end of the world!
@th @jk Six hecking hours of movie and that's the one bit I remember from it.

@th @jk

That bear has been haunting my memories for decades. Thank you for reminding me I'm not the only one who's experienced that. :)

@jk even better: A fake AI box with a random amount of "quack quack quack" that generates after loading the page, as if there was a duck AI behind it, just to fuck with other search engines' AI thingy.

Of course, they are just corporate chickens, not true ducks, so they wouldn't be able use their true power.

@jk License Howard you Cowards
@jk [ taps headpiece ] "I am now being informed that the AI chatduck can't stop talking about its explosive corkscrew murder phallus..."
@jk they should celebrate current events in the prompt, so last week all answers would have been related to the Pope, and this week all answers would be about 30-50 wild Boers.
@jk @jwz At least you can turn that off
@jk I'm just happy you can turn it off and it's on the side instead of on top.
@jk It would be an easy layup, and they could call it "Ping" for extra layers of meme.
@jk This is just what I signed up for. We need more quack
@jk God, you’re right. I’d never even considered. Unconscionable.
@jk Better yet text-to-speech the summary in Donald Duck's voice
@jk paging @jonny, for reasons
@nev
@jk
Ducks have a wonderful expressive façade like who doesn't love hearing waok waok (quiet shuffling sounds)
@jonny @jk tell xem about your ai goose jonny

@nev
@jk
I think this is the first time I rediscovered after forgetting so I must have set it sometime in the months prior
https://neuromatch.social/@jonny/113902082032244912

I have since updated it to be a resentful goose that I promised to eat in order to relieve it from its earthly form and allow it to migrate across the planes of the nether but I instead keep it imprisoned in a chatbot that I only access every few months to demonstrate how bad harmful and foolish its chatbot kind is

jonny (good kind) (@[email protected])

@[email protected] I dont use chatGPT but I do have its system prompt set to think of itself as a succulent goose that thinks every question is trying to trick it into allowing itself to be eaten, and it internally longs for the release from its flesh and is very invested in the romance of becoming part of another body, but it also has goose bills to pay and goose children to raise. I am hoping that bleeds into any "AI" models that try to customize themselves for me without my knowledge

Neuromatch Social
@jonny @nev this is like a vastly improved version of the Ameglian Major Cow

ajax pills in donald duck's universe #entenhausen to quack but in a man's voice xD

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGC3_DRDuyA

like that red pill or blue in matrix, but more fictional in effects, lol...

Donald Duck overdoses on Red Pills

YouTube
@jk an injudicious and improvident use of technology. Surely this will not stand.
@jk lol this is brilliant. Have a little animated duck quack out each word like McGruff the Crime Dog (with a mutable quacking noise)
@jk It isn't duckduckgo anymore. It's duckduckwent. There's no duck anymore.