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

[notthatdelta@furry.engineer]

@jesse @lexfeathers "blink twice if we should send help"

[notthatdelta@furry.engineer]

@josh @lexfeathers I love to see it!

[dausdd@dresden.network]

@lexfeathers The vote is easy to read

[light@noc.social]

@lexfeathers
Where's the "don't care" button?

[piggo@piggo.space]

@lexfeathers its the same story with that mozilla poll, AI doesnt mean jack, its so many things and some are not evil

[light@noc.social]

@lexfeathers
In what context? That's a meaningless question on it's own.

[blogdiva@mastodon.social]

@skylark13 @lexfeathers @vaporeon_ @IntrepidVector yup. this is the way.

[sheogorath@microblog.shivering-isles.com]

@lauerhahn @lexfeathers Well, at this point one can argue that AI and Machine Learning are mostly independent terms, given how effective marking by large tech companies have destroyed any meaning of "AI".

[wintergr33n@lingo.lol]

@lexfeathers

I don't think it's that simple.

AI for cancer research?

Absolutely. I'm on board.

AI in a search engine provided 'free' by a corporation that exploits its users?

Nope.

[raisondetredev@mastodon.de]

@lexfeathers The thing is, I too dislike it typically but I still make use of genAI in the case of not finding any clues with ordinary search engine queries in hope to find references or other mentions.

[aiged@theforkiverse.com]

@lexfeathers we need a "both".

[amberage@eldritch.cafe]

@vaporeon_ @lexfeathers after voting "no", I was offered a link to "see what an AI internet would look like", which turned out to be an advertisement for "Duck AI", so… not excited

[maltita@neopaquita.es]

@lexfeathers I expected a big no but not this big hahahah

[dan@cloudisland.nz]

@notthatdelta @lexfeathers some amount of selection bias can be assumed, but still, heck

[andrewradev@hachyderm.io]

@lexfeathers And of course, even if you choose "No", DDG tell you how they're totally respecting that by making all their AI chat nonsense optional.

This is why when I open a private window with duckduckgo.com, I see two separate buttons with "Duck.ai" and if I make a search, I see both that, and also something rainbow-colored called "Search Assist". That's what they mean by "optional", they mean "we're actively promoting it and putting development effort into integrating LLMs with everything"

[pip@infosec.exchange]

@Wintergr33n @lexfeathers Sorry friend, but you can't have one without the other. It's the system that's rotten, and it's why we need to reject AI in all its forms.

[otyugh@pouet.chapril.org]

@lexfeathers In all honesty I think we should consider that this survey may only appear on the noai duckduck page. They didn't bother showing it to their non-noai customers. So it may be biased. I like it but it may be biased.

[nash@labyrinth.social]

@brhfl @vaporeon_ @lexfeathers they should let you vote on that question too, to tell them you're also not curious

[wintergr33n@lingo.lol]

@pip @lexfeathers

No, we very much can.

It's called regulation.

[licho@kolektiva.social]

@vaporeon_ @IntrepidVector @lexfeathers I've immediately changed my default search bar url to that with noai