[ziddoap]

>is this substantively different from how search queries are handled when DuckDuckGo forwards them to Bing?

No, it is the exact same business model but applied to AI chat instead of search.

[tartrate]

In other words, a lot of fuss about nothing.

[dougb5]

Well it's a big deal to me. OpenAI have not conducted themselves in a way that makes me want to share my search intents with them, and I don't care if they or DDG tell me that what I tell them "won't be used to train AI models".