So this is very much still experimental and right now there are no plans to automatically summarise/turn this on by default. When it comes to concerns, we share them, and there will be a blog about this soon.
On specific points
Since Mojeek is privacy focused, I’m assuming that this AI is so too and runs on Mojeek hardware. Perhaps you could elaborate on this? Might be a good blogpost when you release this feature for the broad public.
This uses an external model/API and requests to it include the query and results; no other personal data is sent, and all of the requests which are made come from our own Mojeek IP addresses. For now this is an experiment so we’re considering options on the way in which it will be offered up to the general public, full transparency about this will be given with the release.
I have not yet decided if this feature is truly helping, actually. On the one hand, I can see the arguments as to how this could help. On the other hand… Mojeek sets by default to only include 1 result per domain on the search results. If a user doesn’t change this, that would mean that the AI is making a summary of many different domains and websites as if it would be all part of one theme or subject. For example, I searched for “CPA”, which can mean two things that are mixed together in the summary.
Duly noted, how this will evolve is currently not decided.
Would it be possible to maintain the full response from the demo by giving RAG it’s own search tab? For example, when I switch to the News tab (
&fmt=news), the web results are pushed to the right column and the news results appear in the main column.
This is definitely a good suggestion and one which has been banked. The three different options (as well as not showing it) are partially because of not having made a clear decision on this.
Thanks again and please don’t hesitate to fold more into this thread, either out of thinking about things of usage 