There are various privacy focused search engine like duckduckgo, startpage, brave, etc. available. Even tho everything have approximately same results maybe because of bing & google API.
But i wish atleast that privacy focused search engines replace their social media post related search link results with privacy focused platform links. Like,
Reddit to lemmy X to mastodon Instagram to pixelfed Youtube to youtube or piped (no good options)
Then it would also a good support for those platforms too… But will it happen ?
Lots of progress is being made right now in reducing the computational power to train these things - but that’s where all the energy is used. Using the end-result isn’t that harmful; it doesn’t use any more power than playing a game would.