DuckDuckGo poll says 90% responders don't want AI

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• radio@sh.itjust.works ⁨19⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

  And how much of their budget are they blowing on AI features despite polls showing their regular users don’t even want it? Probably also 90%.

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• Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world ⁨25⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

  And yet it’s opt out, not opt in.

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• TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com ⁨20⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

  and 45% of those replies were A.I.

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• Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Yeah. I'm actually kind of upset that I have to type 'noai'. That should be the standard.

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  • TheNamlessGuy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    Here’s a link to the Disable AI firefox plugin. Works on mobile and desktop.

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  • A_norny_mousse@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I hope they learn their lesson from their own poll.

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    • Balinares@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      I mean, the poll was like as not a publicity stunt, to draw attention to the fact DDG is not doing AI. All the same, the fact they are making “no AI” a selling point is noteworthy.

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  • felixwhynot@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    I’m looking forward to adding it to my browser settings as default search!

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    • JamonBear@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      Already doable in Firefox, just right click in the search box then add search engine ;)

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• setsubyou@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  The article already notes that

  privacy-focused users who don’t want “AI” in their search are more likely to use DuckDuckGo

  But the opposite is also true. Maybe it’s not 90% to 10% elsewhere, but I’d expect the same general imbalance because some people who would answer yes to ai in a survey on a search web site don’t go to search web sites in the first place. They go to ChatGPT or whatever.

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  • A_norny_mousse@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It still creeps me out that people use LLMs as search engines nowadays.

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    • gerryflap@feddit.nl ⁨11⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      For some issues, especially related to programming and Linux, I feel like I kinda have to at this point. Google seems to have become useless, and DDG was never great to begin with but is arguably better than Google now. I’ve had some very obscure issues that I spent quite some time searching for, only to drop it into ChatGPT and get a link to some random forum post that discusses it. The biggest one was a Linux kernel regression that was posted on the same day in the Arch Linux forums somewhere. Despite having a hunch about what it could be and searching/struggling for over an hour, I couldn’t find anything. ChatGPT then managed to link me the post (and a suggested fix: switching to LTS kernel) in less than minute.

      For general purpose search tho, hell no. If I want to know factual data that’s easy to find I’ll rely on the good old search engine. And even if I have to use an LLM, I don’t really trust it unless it gives me links to the information or I can verify that what it says is true.

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    • SendMePhotos@lemmy.world ⁨42⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      That was the plan. That’s (I’m guessing) why the search results have slowly yet noticeably degraded since Ai has been consumer level.

      They WANT you to use Ai so they can cater the answers. (tin foil hat)

      I really do believe that though. Call me a conspiracy theorist but damn it, it fits.

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    • Damorte@lemmy.world ⁨51⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      Have you seen the quality of google searches the last few years? I’m not surprised at all. LLM might bot give you the correct answer but at least it will provide you with one lol.

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    • truthfultemporarily@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      I use kagi assistant. It does a search, summarizes, then gives references to the origin of each claim. Genuinely useful.

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    • evol@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      what makes it creepy?

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  • atropa@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

     I Prefer searx

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    • felixwhynot@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      Do you also use Arch btw?

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• MutantTailThing@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  AI? FuckFuckNo

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• Novis@lemdro.id ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  NOW the question is, will they listen? Cause we’ve seen so many times where a company says they’re taking feedback and then do the thing that their audience didn’t want them to do in the first place anyways. Now, of course, they could have more data and metrics that says people don’t care or do want the BS, but I doubt all the companies that DID go hard into AI actually looked at legit numbers, since all the big heads are now saying “why aren’t you people using this stuff?”

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• A_norny_mousse@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  It’s funny how many people ruffle their feathers over this. Same type of comments as when somebody first shared this poll here: you can’t expect this to be representative, it’s not a yes/no question etc.

  Let’s put it like this: I do not want AI pushed on me in almost every online situation. That is a yes/no question to me.

  Why? Because it’s not ready, wastes the planet, and is the USA’s big gamble.

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• WanderingThoughts@europe.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  That’s when the Silicon Valley types all bring out the ol’ “People don’t know what they want until you show it to them.” Well, they already showed what LLM can do and it’s not that great.

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• Kilom@lemmy.world ⁨52⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

  Is this from the “poll” where you could click “Yes AI” or “No AI” without any further context or explanation on what the question even implies. Yes the marketing stunt works but that’s not a poll one should cite.

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