- DuckDuckGo Adds Free, Encrypted Real-Time AI Voice Chat to Duck.ai [9to5mac.com]
If you use AI, we have big news: AI voice chat, privacy-protected by us. Opt in at Duck.ai and just start talking; the AI will listen and respond in real time. Your voice is not recorded, stored, or used for training. So chat away! We’re not listening.
(Like all of our AI features, voice chat is totally optional. Even after you opt in, you can change your mind any time. Head to your Duck.ai settings to toggle the feature on and off.)
- Duck Tales: Duck Tales: Duck Sans — Designing a Typeface That Balances Functionality and Brand (Ep.18) [insideduckduckgo.substack.com]
In this week's episode, we discuss why we developed a new typeface, how we implemented it, and its role in communicating our personality.
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In the news...
- Discord's Age Verification Mandate Is a Leap Toward a Gated Internet [theverge.com]
"Discord is about to force some of the people who use its messaging app to make a choice: Use the platform with restricted features, or prove their age. It’s a move that platforms have been slowly approaching, but Discord’s teen-by-default rollout is a stronger clampdown that could offer a glimpse at an age-gated future on the web worldwide," says Emma Roth.
"Suzanne Bernstein, a counsel at the Electronic Privacy Information Center, tells The Verge that putting age restrictions on certain features or content isn’t a 'silver bullet' for safety. 'The way to protect not just kids, but everyone’s safety online, is to design products that are less manipulative and that don’t pose a risk of harm,' Bernstein says."
- The New ChatGPT Caricature Trend Comes With A Privacy Warning [forbes.com]
"Create a caricature of me and my job based on everything you know about me." This is the prompt users are giving ChatGPT to jump on the new AI-generated caricature trend.
"To create the caricatures, ChatGPT needs a lot of data about you. This might all seem well and good, but it also means you are handing over a bunch of potentially sensitive data to ChatGPT — all to jump on a viral trend that will soon be forgotten."
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