Digital Forensics with Damien

This week I am going to write about Duck AI in the Android version of the DuckDuckGo web browser. This is a feature in the DuckDuckGo Browser that allows users to interact anonymously with third-party AI chat models.  As of this writing users can access the following AI Models GPT-4o Mini - OpenAI Llama 3.3 - Meta Claude 3 Haiku - Anthropic o3-Mini - OpenAI Mistral Small 3 - Mistral AI To anonymize users, the traffic going to these models goes through the DuckDuckGo servers which removes identifiable information such as IP address before forwarding the prompt to the LLM. Furthermore, the DuckDuckGo servers do not store, or record chats and the conversations are not used to train the models.  Link:   Duck AI Privacy Info Even though the DuckDuckGo servers do not store the chats, the browser does store the last 30 conversations locally (Not just DuckDuckGo Browser). This local save option can be disabled and the conversations will be cleared each time the browsing data is c...