DuckDuckGo Launches Public Vote on AI and User Choice

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• tomalley8342@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I guess it’s some sort of sick performance art by showing that even though the >90% voted no AI, DDG will still have AI turned on by default in its main site and corral the >90% into the hidden away subdomain.

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  • daikiki@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    This is an obvious marketing exercise to promote their noai subdomain.

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  • XLE@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    It’s funny to me that their best excuse to you and me is “it’s your choice.” No reasoning about why AI is good or valuable, probably because they don’t have one.

    DDFG, maybe you guys should tell the AI devotees that it can be their choice, and make them turn on the setting themselves.

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    • KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      This is a weird response to a vote. If they told you the good, you’d complain they didn’t tell you the bad. If they told you the bad, you’d complain they were skewing one way or the other.

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• acosmichippo@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  voteyesornoai.com

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• ProfessorScience@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  No option for “a little AI, maybe, where it makes sense, but don’t go crazy with it” option, I see.

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  • Takapapatapaka@tarte.nuage-libre.fr ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Probably because that’s what they mean by “no”

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    • Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Boy I miss when no meant no.

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  • MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    There is a option in the settings for that.

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• EvilBit@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  More bullshit URL slop.

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• GEEXiES@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Below the vote was a link to see what an internet with AI is, or something like that. I went and asked their AI if all this was just a blatant ad for their AI, and it gave me a long, long list of excuses, after which I told it: come on, just say yes or no, and it replied back: yes, it could be said to be a blatant ad :D

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  • lmuel@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Judging by the votes, I don’t think it’s working that well as an ad?

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    • PierceTheBubble@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Maybe the best ad is to not have AI

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    • GEEXiES@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Yes, you might be right on that. But nobody said all ads had to be effective! ;) They sure are getting a lot of attention… maybe this backfires, maybe they get something out of it, we don’t know their expectations.

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• PierceTheBubble@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  THIS is how you do it, looking at you Brave: requiring me to (re)type my queries in the URL bar (appending ‘&summary=0’ to it), without having to store a cookie storing the setting…

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• qyron@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Isn’t there a method to access only the non AI search? I read someone on that here.

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  • Mac@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Settings -> Search -> Search Shortcuts -> Add -> URL:

    noai.duckduckgo.com/?q=%25s

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    • qyron@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      So this already exists. That tells me they were already aware the AI was not that popular.

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