@nieuemma

Thank you!

JUst updated alt-text to read:

"An animated gif of a man holding and intentionally throwing to the ground large signs that read 'no'. The signs have black text on a green background."

@lexfeathers

I seem to belong to the majority. Astonishing.

@lexfeathers
"We don't all feel the same way about AI."

But 95% of us do apparently.

@lexfeathers I made an AI as a project in college. I know how it works in depth. NO! The fact that AI has become so popular is only because the military is giving our tax money to greedy corporations to keep their monopolistic failures of a carcass afloat because their CEOs have more money than brains. The technology is not useful to the common joe and jane.

@lilo @notthatdelta @lexfeathers well, it's targeting duckduckgo users... whom i suspect have largely gone to DDG to avoid AI on other search engines. Not saying it doesn't likely reflect a growing public backlash against AI everywhere, but I am saying the target demo is biased

@lexfeathers The way the little NO bar instantly filled up with the cute corpo animation had me rolling

@lexfeathers@tenforward.social Since I use DDG — mostly just the search, not their browser — I figured I may as well answer. This is where it was when I answered.

@lexfeathers

DuckDuckGo: "We don't all feel the same about AI. That's why choice matters."

Public: Nope, we do all feel the same about AI: we don't want it. Nice try, bro.

@lilo @dan @lexfeathers maybe they should just ask an LLM how to bypass that vote protection then! /s

I agree with Dan that there's selection bias here, since the average DDG user is probably more concerned about privacy and/or environmental impact and/or the ethics of using models trained on stolen data and/or actively wants a AI-free experience.

Conversely, the argument of "the other side is ChEAtInG" doesn't pass muster.

@lexfeathers

I was expected No AI to win, but not by that much.

@lexfeathers
https://voteyesornoai.com/vote/no

@lexfeathers

Did I make it?

@lexfeathers Ohhhh, choice matters, that's why they have AI generated images in search result as OPT-OUT, rather than opt-in. And AI assisted search set to "sometimes" instead of "never" as their default. Makes sense. Well done, my former search engine of choice. As the great philosopher Cher once said "Breaking up is is hard to do"... but well, sometime you have to. (The other great philosopher Lilly Allen said on the same topic "F*%& you, f*%& very very much" but I find that bit too harsh to quote). It was good while it lasted #DuckDuckGo

@lexfeathers and God said unto Noai ...

@lexfeathers Impressive how 5% of the voters are wrong...

@lexfeathers AI, a solution looking for a problem. The 4 point caveats on AI websites “AI can get it wrong, check the result” pretty much sums up why it’s a Grok of Shit.

@lexfeathers its tool. And as such, its about way of usage, not YES / NO

@lexfeathers But even if the result was 100% "No AI" somehow I doubt their AI search will disappear.

@lexfeathers With about 10,600 votes as of this writing it’s 95 per cent “No”.

@lexfeathers WOW. I know AI isn't popular, but I wasn't expecting the results to be so skewed toward #NoAI.

What this affirms for me is that the prevalence of "AI" today is not organically driven. It's being pushed top-down by big tech companies, with some hangers-on motivated by FOMO. This technology is not being embraced, it's being foisted on us.