Duckduckgo has a survey for pro/anti-AI and I cackled so hard at the (current) results
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Duckduckgo has a survey for pro/anti-AI and I cackled so hard at the (current) results
@lexfeathers The vote is easy to read
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Duckduckgo has a survey for pro/anti-AI and I cackled so hard at the (current) results
@lexfeathers
Where's the "don't care" button? -
Duckduckgo has a survey for pro/anti-AI and I cackled so hard at the (current) results
@lexfeathers
In what context? That's a meaningless question on it's own. -
@lexfeathers @vaporeon_ @IntrepidVector you can set it up as a custom search engine and then select it by default, that way all searches go to noai search. Even those from the address bar.
Instructions below for FireFox and forks thereof.
Jean-Sébastien Guay (@skylark13@mastodon.gamedev.place)
@callisto@disabled.social @harald@mementomori.social @darwinwoodka@mastodon.social @ottaross@mastodon.social You need to go to Settings - Search. Then at the bottom you have "search shortcuts", there you can click "Add" to add a new one. Name it "NoAI DDG" or whatever and paste https://noai.duckduckgo.com/%s In the URL field. (Right-click copy that since Mastodon sometimes hides the https part) Then you can go to the top where it says "Default search engine" and select the new one you just created. It's a bit different in the mobile version but similar enough.
Gamedev Mastodon (mastodon.gamedev.place)
@skylark13 @lexfeathers @vaporeon_ @IntrepidVector yup. this is the way.
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Duckduckgo has a survey for pro/anti-AI and I cackled so hard at the (current) results
I don't think it's that simple.
AI for cancer research?
Absolutely. I'm on board.
AI in a search engine provided 'free' by a corporation that exploits its users?
Nope.
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Duckduckgo has a survey for pro/anti-AI and I cackled so hard at the (current) results
@lexfeathers The thing is, I too dislike it typically but I still make use of genAI in the case of not finding any clues with ordinary search engine queries in hope to find references or other mentions.
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Duckduckgo has a survey for pro/anti-AI and I cackled so hard at the (current) results
@lexfeathers we need a "both".
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@lexfeathers "Big Tech doesn't care if you want AI or not. They should.", written by the same company who added "AI" overview to their search without asking us...
I wonder what they'll do with the results, whether it'll make them reconsider it or not
@vaporeon_ @lexfeathers after voting "no", I was offered a link to "see what an AI internet would look like", which turned out to be an advertisement for "Duck AI", so… not excited
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Duckduckgo has a survey for pro/anti-AI and I cackled so hard at the (current) results
@lexfeathers I expected a big no but not this big hahahah
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@lexfeathers "We don't all feel the same about AI"
Kinda... kinda looks like we do?
@notthatdelta @lexfeathers some amount of selection bias can be assumed, but still, heck
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Duckduckgo has a survey for pro/anti-AI and I cackled so hard at the (current) results
@lexfeathers And of course, even if you choose "No", DDG tell you how they're totally respecting that by making all their AI chat nonsense optional.
This is why when I open a private window with duckduckgo.com, I see two separate buttons with "Duck.ai" and if I make a search, I see both that, and also something rainbow-colored called "Search Assist". That's what they mean by "optional", they mean "we're actively promoting it and putting development effort into integrating LLMs with everything"
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I don't think it's that simple.
AI for cancer research?
Absolutely. I'm on board.
AI in a search engine provided 'free' by a corporation that exploits its users?
Nope.
@Wintergr33n @lexfeathers Sorry friend, but you can't have one without the other. It's the system that's rotten, and it's why we need to reject AI in all its forms.
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Duckduckgo has a survey for pro/anti-AI and I cackled so hard at the (current) results
@lexfeathers In all honesty I think we should consider that this survey may only appear on the noai duckduck page. They didn't bother showing it to their non-noai customers. So it may be biased. I like it but it may be biased.
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@vaporeon_ @lexfeathers you vote no and they’re like ‘buuuut are you sure?’ so i rather doubt they’ll be taking it to heart lol
@brhfl @vaporeon_ @lexfeathers they should let you vote on that question too, to tell them you're also not curious
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@Wintergr33n @lexfeathers Sorry friend, but you can't have one without the other. It's the system that's rotten, and it's why we need to reject AI in all its forms.
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@IntrepidVector @lexfeathers I see... Not really a choice if you clear cookies regularly and it defaults to it turned on and not to it turned off... I avoid it by going to https://lite.duckduckgo.com, the version without JavaScripts and without LLMs, but it doesn't have picture search, so for picture search I instead have to remember to type in https://noai.duckduckgo.com, which is somewhat annoying...
@vaporeon_ @IntrepidVector @lexfeathers I've immediately changed my default search bar url to that with noai
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@brhfl @vaporeon_ @lexfeathers they should let you vote on that question too, to tell them you're also not curious
@nash @brhfl @lexfeathers I already know what an "AI" internet looks like, we're in it right now, all the web sites keep pushing "AI" that wasn't asked for
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Duckduckgo has a survey for pro/anti-AI and I cackled so hard at the (current) results
@lexfeathers
Hace unos días Discord hizo algo similar. Al poco tiempo la encuesta desapareció misteriosamente. -
LOL. This was me voting.
@funnymonkey "A man scrolling through no banners" is confusing to read.
I think it should say something more like "An animated gif of a man holding and intentionally throwing to the ground signs that read 'no'."
If anyone else has better ideas feel free to share them, because that's the best I've got.
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@IntrepidVector @lexfeathers I see... Not really a choice if you clear cookies regularly and it defaults to it turned on and not to it turned off... I avoid it by going to https://lite.duckduckgo.com, the version without JavaScripts and without LLMs, but it doesn't have picture search, so for picture search I instead have to remember to type in https://noai.duckduckgo.com, which is somewhat annoying...
@vaporeon_ @IntrepidVector @lexfeathers
EDIT: Someone beat me to it, rip
If you’re not aware, you can add a custom search engine to your browser without too much trouble! Just go to search settings and it’s typically near the bottom iirc. I added NoAI DDG to my browser that way for those exact reasons lol
