Max "Buzzworthy" Eddy
evacideIf you are looking for a job that is fully remote and also not evil, DuckDuckGo is hiring for several positions: https://duckduckgo.com/hiring
Oliver D. Reithmaier@evacide seniors once again :(
Junior markets seem dead.
Maya Granade@evacide one position in my skillset and it's ai integration.
Mudd ~: 
They look to have all some aspect of LLM, unfortunately
RyeNCode 🇨🇦@Muddobbers @kevingranade @evacide
Yep, is all non-starter stuff for me 😢
Morally, Ethically & Professionally I cannot submit to the AI,genAI,LLM quack-fest.
Yep, is all non-starter stuff for me 😢
Morally, Ethically & Professionally I cannot submit to the AI,genAI,LLM quack-fest.
Drew 🇵🇭@evacide
Senior backend engineer (the kind of thing I would do):
"Implementing AI-assisted answers and integrating them into our Search product"
Not evil? Ha! Hahaha!
Cassandrich
Tor Iver Wilhelmsen@toriver @drewph @evacide After Google I'd hoped everyone would have learned. A search engine needs to be saying one of:
1. "We are not a business. We will not be run as a business, and here is how we intend to fund operations without being a business", or
2. "We are a business. Here is the way we make money and here is how we've set that up so that it does not conflict with your interests as a user of the service."
"Um, we're doing exactly like old Google with pinky-promises about 'evil' and no clear legitimate way to make money, and actively partnering with them and Microsoft to repackage their results" does not cut it.
Mongoose Studios
Ariaflame@MongooseStudios @drewph @evacide The most that can be said is it's a lot easier to opt out of the AI stuff.
☭ Father Hardstone@ariaflame @MongooseStudios @drewph @evacide
Qwant and Startpage do that a lot better !
@drewph @MongooseStudios @evacide
Hey, that does not happen with me and I am literally sitting in a shithole (#Pakistan) but I guess you should use startpage then 🤷♂️
stiller_leser@evacide I mean, its paid at least, but having to do two projects for them before you even talk to the team, seems like a strange way to acquire talent...
Thomas Hunter II@evacide TIL DDG is mostly written in Perl
Teoh Han Hui
sleeperImplementing AI-assisted answers and integrating them into our Search product while maintaining our privacy-first approach
(And OP blocked me, just for calling "AI" evil.)
@teohhanhui 😖 That's not OK ! That's not even a personal attack or anything like that. My personal issues with DDG is their "censorship policies" regarding "certain kind of content" and sometimes also related to news
JamesK
Doodles
Scott V Burger@evacide as a daily DDG user I never thought to apply there until now, so thanks for raising awareness
Maki 🔻 💚PRO❤️@evacide Their push for "agentic" processes annoys me to no end.
Utopia 
Martijn VosWhat is their tech stack? Various job descriptions list perl, node.js, python, go, kotlin, c#, swift. Are there any languages they won't use?
I'll have to consider this. Pay is a lot better than what I'm used to, and if I want to work for an American company, DDG is probably better than most.
GrumpyDad 🇺🇦🇵🇸@evacide "and also not evil". I miss the days when that was not a job requirement.
Dźwiedziu@grumpydad
And we have to grade the acceptable level of “not evil” that we're willing to apply to :/
me_valentijn@evacide
Have you not looked at what DuckDuckGo has been doing lately, or is everything you say so unreliable? The positions involve AI, and then there's this gem:
Have you not looked at what DuckDuckGo has been doing lately, or is everything you say so unreliable? The positions involve AI, and then there's this gem:
Thankful Machine@evacide It ain’t Google, but “not evil”? Not so fast.
Pip@evacide Not evil? Then this seems like a good time to remind people that duckduckgo:
1. Is building planet-roasting, de-skilling AI
2. Is lying about censoring adult-oriented results
DDG's no google, but they're just another shitty tech company in my book.
Crystal_Fish_Caves@pip ty I have been feeling bad about dumping them. trying to ween off google but the two started fighting moving shit back and forth duck had to go.
S.Tori@Torithom @evacide Yeah imo there are no good search engines at the moment. But personally, I prefer Startpage over the rest for a few reasons:
1. Haven't caught them in weird lies like DDG.
2. Startpage doesn't seem to be building AI shit.
3. They're not based in the US.
But, Startpage doesn't have their own search index, and pulls a lot of data from Google on the backend.
Soo, hard agree that you can't be too purist about these things bc we gotta search somehow. But we also don't have to go work for companies building AI either.
Bredroll
Odin Halvorson@evacide
If only I had literally any skills good companies want 😅
If only I had literally any skills good companies want 😅
CrankyOldBugger 
@evacide I wouldn't know what to do if the company wasn't evil.
Huntn00
Vive Levant@evacide how can it be not evil and full steam on ai ? Real question.
Srob
Ursidinoj/The Bjornsdottirs
The Arachnixe Entity 🪞🕯️@evacide The fact that you're calling this "not evil" when the first position I look at touts AI integration is a serious red flag for not just your own values, but those of anyone who empowers you to lead others. I see you have a director position at the EFF, which I had previously thought highly of. I may be an insignificant drop in the bucket, but this post has me canceling my recurring contribution to that organization.
Alexander 😷@evacide How is accelerating the climate crisis with AI "not evil"?