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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Copying a comment I made from another thread:
If you select “No” it gives you an option to go to an alternate DDG homepage “noai.duckduckgo.com”. But it looks like if you just go to their normal homepage, they’ve got a link to DuckAI at the top, searching for images defaults to including AI images, and they have a Search Assist that uses AI as well.
So even though the overwhelming majority of their users have responded “No AI”, they’re still defaulting everyone to the “Yes AI” experience unless you use an alternate URL. That’s kind of shitty. I mean at least they have a “no” option, but seems like it should be the default.
What’s frustrating is that all browsers default to the “Yes AI” version when you pick DDG as the default search engine. So if you have a privacy browser that periodically dumps your cookies, the AI keeps getting turned on.
This wouldn’t be a problem if DDG just made it fucking opt-in from the start instead of opt-out. Hopefully with the poll they’ll finally make the right choice and fix it
Yes, you can define your own search engine on firefox though. Just type in the no ai link of ddg and the search parameter.
Well, this is incredibly recent. Yeah, they fucked up with following stupid trends, but I like the acknowledgement
I am utterly unsure whether my opinion is that this is a Stockholm/bootlick/appeasement type sentiment or not. Like not even trying to be oppositional because I actually sort of feel the same way.
Got a big ass laugh out of this
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