Warn HN: DuckDuckGo is doing AI summaries for search results now?

7 points

2 years ago

Searching for "steam deck gamescope"[0], the first search result looked suspiciously autosummarized[1]. Refreshing the page seems to generate new summaries every time, for the exact same query[2][3].

None of these quotes appear in the page itself[4], in the content or source code.

There is no warning that this is happening, nor can I see a way to turn it off. Curiously, it only seems to happen for the first result, the other results' summaries appear verbatim in their respective pages.

[0]: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=steam+deck+gamescope&t=ffab&ia=web

[1]: https://i.imgur.com/k9WJneo.png

[2]: https://i.imgur.com/4MRXWCm.png

[3]: https://i.imgur.com/EWjQ4Xt.png

[4]: https://steamcommunity.com/app/1675200/discussions/0/5764050278022223667/

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