72,525 votes so far. 93% no.
I guess it’s some sort of sick performance art by showing that even though the >90% voted no AI, DDG will still have AI turned on by default in its main site and corral the >90% into the hidden away subdomain.
This is an obvious marketing exercise to promote their noai subdomain.
No option for “a little AI, maybe, where it makes sense, but don’t go crazy with it” option, I see.
Probably because that’s what they mean by “no”
Boy I miss when no meant no.
THIS is how you do it, looking at you Brave: requiring me to (re)type my queries in the URL bar (appending ‘&summary=0’ to it), without having to store a cookie storing the setting…
More bullshit URL slop.
Below the vote was a link to see what an internet with AI is, or something like that. I went and asked their AI if all this was just a blatant ad for their AI, and it gave me a long, long list of excuses, after which I told it: come on, just say yes or no, and it replied back: yes, it could be said to be a blatant ad :D
Judging by the votes, I don’t think it’s working that well as an ad?
Maybe the best ad is to not have AI
