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DuckDuckGo’s AI platform can now generate images

The new Duck.ai feature, still in beta, adheres to DuckDuckGo’s privacy-first approach to AI and to search in general. Here are the details.

No details shared with OpenAI

Starting today, users can head over to duck.ai, select “New Image” from the side panel, and describe what they want to create.

According to DuckDuckGo, the same privacy protections apply as when you use the platform’s chat tool. This means that DuckDuckGo anonymizes every prompt, and that no user information is used to train OpenAI’s underlying image model.

The company also stresses that, thanks to its privacy-first approach, images are stored locally on the user’s device, rather than on its own servers. DuckDuckGo also labels the generated images with C2PA-compliant metadata, which means that they can be verified as AI-generated.

Duck.ai’s image generator is free, with daily usage limits for non-DuckDuckGo subscribers.

Following today’s rollout, Duck.ai’s team is now working on new features, including support for uploading reference images, as well as a dedicated download button on mobile devices.

To learn more about Duck.ai’s terms of service, follow this link.

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Marcus Mendes is a Brazilian tech podcaster and journalist who has been closely following Apple since the mid-2000s.

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