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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It’s real fucking simple: let people turn it on if they want to use it (any feature, not just ai), and let everyone else leave it disabled by default. The fact that they have to poll users for what they want shows how tone deaf they are to begin with.

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The company argues that users should decide how AI shows up in their digital lives, rather than having it embedded automatically across products.

This is a lie. How many times I get that stupid AI summary on search results.

Yeah they’re doing it backwards. AI is on by default unless you specifically go to noai.duckduckgo.com

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