The privacy-focused search engine is asking the public where they stand on AI, arguing that AI features should always be optional.
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I wish they were more clear on this. Is this about existing AI features? Future AI features? AI images?
My only real complaint is that I would prefer it to never show the AI answer by default, I would just like to see the button to get the AI answer. And to be clear, I know I can set DDG to behave that way, but I do a lot of searches in private tabs too.
I actually do find the AI summary helpful. When it comes to basic programming questions, like to remind me of syntax or arguments, it gives a useful answer most of the time.
But I don’t want to see AI images. And I’m hesitant to agree to future AI features because of how aggressively some companies push them in your face.
I think it’s great and really straightforward. it’s quite simply asking people to say yes or no to AI, and the response has been overwhelmingly no.
Even then, what do you consider AI?
Some people don’t even consider LLMs to be AI because they don’t consider them smart enough and or because they lack sentience.
Before LLMs, machine learning has been considered “AI”. DDG/Bing likely uses machine learning for their page rankings, are they going to stop that because this poll said no to AI?
The poll is just too vague with what AI means. When people say they hate AI nowadays, they typically don’t literally mean that. They really mean they hate how things like how LLMs are shoved into services that don’t need them, tech bros non-nonchalantly talking about replacing humans entirely, environmental impact of LLMs, people using LLMs for too many things, etc. Outside of stuff like that, there’s plenty of good uses of “AI”.