Will DDG honor this and make AI opt-in, so 90% of people can have a good default experience?
Yes. They already have, and always have. As well as a big giant page that gives you step by step instructions on where to go in your duck duck go settings to turn it all off.
I get the AI hate, I share it. But do a little research please. DDG (from what I can tell) has never given anyone any reason to not at least give them the benefit of the doubt.
Opt in, not opt out. DDG knows better, clearly.
It is? I have to explicitly click the search assist button to get AI slop results.
That’s logical. If I would want an LLM powered search(sometimes I search for the things I’m not even sure to exist) I would use an LLM. If I know concrete terminology I would use a standard search engine expecting it to provide more precise results.
I suppose other people do the same.
They are so missing out. I am now running a movie studio with Claude Magnum Opus 21.37 providing me with an army of scriptwriters and assistants. There are some guardrails that I had to add myself, because I’m a genius, like for minimum amounts of sexual abuse. My productivity is off the charts, I have so much more time for taking antipsychotic drugs.
21.37
hehe
Very similar situation here!
I was able to use it to create a slew of new AI bands- with each one creating a new album every 4½ hours! I’ve even got a few of these bands going on a US tour of 25 of the dumbest states!
The time saved having to compose all that music has allowed me to argue that “Yes, I am a real artist!” with people online for hours upon hours!
Thanks AI! Without you, I’d just be an unknown looser. Now, I’m a well known one!
Strange ,when I voted it was at 93 % no AI
Does duck duck go have a biased dataset? Probably.
Still rings true for the techier folks.
It just doesn’t matter anymore what we want. We’re being given to this bullshit anyway and in some bizarro world, tech CEO’s will continue to presume that our hatred really means we love it and want more.
You know, we could fix it by like… not allowing executives carte blanche control of our lives?
Update: since when did ai.duckduckduckgo.com redirect to Microsoft (literally a complaint in the article about requiring login)?
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