Duckduckgo has a survey for pro/anti-AI and I cackled so hard at the (current) results

[pip@infosec.exchange]

@Wintergr33n @lexfeathers I think we're both talking about regulating AI, albeit in different ways. I want it regulated like chemical or biological weapons, with severe penalties for using it in any way, shape, or form.

[vaporeon_@glaceon.social]

@river @IntrepidVector Different question, but do you also happen to know how I could put back the search engine selection at the bottom of the URL/search bar? Before I switched to Librewolf, the Firefox 128 ESR had that (it had first the URL suggestions from your browsing history, and below that the option to search with different search engines), and the Librewolf that's based on the latest Firefox only has a drop-down menu that's a lot less intuitive to keyboard-navigate to... (Need to Shift+Tab to it and then press the down arrow before the menu appears, as opposed to just pressing the down arrow a few times...)

This is what stopping me from using a custom search engine right now, the fact that it's difficult to select a search engine for a search at all

[depereo@mastodon.social]

@lexfeathers @req and if you want to get further away from AI nonsense like the stuff Mozilla is pushing in Firefox, it's pretty friction-free to move to Waterfox.

[maldron@drumbum42.com]

@notthatdelta @lexfeathers

Seems to be going in that direction......😆

[d10c4n3@kolektiva.social]

@ninafelwitch @lexfeathers i fear only no ai people are interested in voting.

[nicknamesofgod@mastodon.social]

@lexfeathers It's a nail-biter.

[scofisticated@socel.net]

@lexfeathers thank you for sharing this

[moonlight_crazy@mastodon.social]

@lexfeathers

96% no at the moment

[rostanegribi@mstdn.social]

@lexfeathers The duck has good marketing, kudos !

[rmi@cloudisland.nz]

@notthatdelta @lexfeathers 5% is low enough we could go door to door handing out dunce caps

[brohrer@recsys.social]

@notthatdelta @lexfeathers
Update

[mossyfoot@pdx.social]

@depereo @lexfeathers @req yep it's exactly the same without the AI.

[krunchyrice@mastodon.social]

@lexfeathers I love your music, I've been working on a piano cover of succession.
It's funny I happened to open mastodon at your first post.

[lilo@muenster.im]

@dan @notthatdelta @lexfeathers there are probably simply more people on the NoAI side who know how to work around the multiple vote protection.

[fishidwardrobe@social.tchncs.de]

@lexfeathers "we don't all feel the same about ai"

96% no? i think we mostly do…

[oldgeek@masto.yttrx.com]

@torstentorsten @lexfeathers there has aleady been a study that AI is deskilling doctors: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/langas/article/PIIS2468-1253(25)00133-5/abstract

[ohweh@climatejustice.social]

@lexfeathers

I seem to belong to the majority. Astonishing.

[jeremymallin@autistics.life]

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

But 95% of us do apparently. 😆

[imgoneinpeace@mastodon.social]

@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.

[dan@cloudisland.nz]

@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