Education Shouldn't Be Held for Ransom
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Google told K-12 schools they could turn off AI, but only if they gave up search too. That isn’t integration. It’s holding education for ransom.
    • excursion22@piefed.caOPEnglish
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      3 hours ago

      As with some of the comments on that post, I don’t find the author of your linked post, nor the ‘lori’ who wrote the post they refer to make a terribly compelling argument of why people should not use Kagi.

  • neclimdul@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    7 hours ago

    i saw the initial news and thought what am opportunity… Kagi didn’t waste any time.

    i dont know that they made the deal hood enough. or made the argument early enough in that novel… but good for them.

    • h0tbeef@lemmy.zipEnglish
      5·
      8 hours ago

      Fourtunately there are free options that dont habe AI, ads, sponsored content, or steal your data.

      SearXNG ftw!

    • FauxLiving@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      14 hours ago

      They’re paying for Google too, but they’re using the credit card of their students’ privacy.

  • Zedstrian@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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    23 hours ago

    Many schools wouldn’t be able to afford Kagi just for their students to search the web though; DDG would be much more viable for that purpose.

    • psx_crab@lemmy.zipEnglish
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      22 hours ago

      Yeah i thought they wrote this article ending with “contact us to get free education tier” but instead it’s an ads for the paid education tier with free trial.

    • Glitchvid@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      17 hours ago

      As far as public education, yeah Kagi doesn’t have the legal and compliance framework to even attempt. You’d also need to provide an alternative to the whole docs/drive/etc ecosystem.

      For like colleges though, I think there’s a more viable path — I can’t see their purely per-seat pricing model working though; and is also the problem I see with their “teams” plan. The better way there is to either provide a hybrid and/or totally ala carte pricing model, one where you pay per seat and also get a number of searches added to the whole plan ($3/seat + 250 searches); and another where you don’t have seats and instead just accumulate searches and pay at the end of the month based on your search volume. Otherwise the upfront $10/user seat costs in their current billing are hard to justify.