On 15th November, Union Minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar warned against Search Bias, Algorithmic Bias and AI models with bias while quoting a post by X user Arun Pudur, where Pudur had highlighted how Google Bard was censoring a report by OpIndia. Those who are aggrieved by this can file FIRs against such platforms, and safe harbour/immunity under Sec79 will not apply …
DuckDuckGo launched a new feature to summarise answers using information from Wikipedia displayed at the top of the web browser’s search results. Called DuckAssist, the feature is now in beta, and uses natural language processing technology from OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google-backed Anthropic to anonymously generate a brief to respond to questions. However, DuckAssist is most likely to appear in searches …