@lexfeathers

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.

@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.

@lexfeathers we need a "both".

@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

@lexfeathers I expected a big no but not this big hahahah

@notthatdelta @lexfeathers some amount of selection bias can be assumed, but still, heck

@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"

@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.

@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.

@brhfl @vaporeon_ @lexfeathers they should let you vote on that question too, to tell them you're also not curious

@pip @lexfeathers

No, we very much can.

It's called regulation.

@vaporeon_ @IntrepidVector @lexfeathers I've immediately changed my default search bar url to that with noai

@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

@lexfeathers
Hace unos días Discord hizo algo similar. Al poco tiempo la encuesta desapareció misteriosamente.

@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.

@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

@lexfeathers
Every company is putting AI everywhere they can.
Meanwhile 96% of people:

@Wintergr33n @lexfeathers

It's only complex if you make it complex. DDG isn't asking in generalities. If you go up to a fast food restaurant and they say "want ketchup?" They aren't surveying you on whether you accept or refuse ketchup as a general moral stance. They want to know if they should be adding ketchup to your order.

@Wintergr33n @lexfeathers I think we're both talking about regulating AI, albeit in different ways. I want it regulated like chemical or biological weapons, with severe penalties for using it in any way, shape, or form.

@river @IntrepidVector Different question, but do you also happen to know how I could put back the search engine selection at the bottom of the URL/search bar? Before I switched to Librewolf, the Firefox 128 ESR had that (it had first the URL suggestions from your browsing history, and below that the option to search with different search engines), and the Librewolf that's based on the latest Firefox only has a drop-down menu that's a lot less intuitive to keyboard-navigate to... (Need to Shift+Tab to it and then press the down arrow before the menu appears, as opposed to just pressing the down arrow a few times...)

This is what stopping me from using a custom search engine right now, the fact that it's difficult to select a search engine for a search at all