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

@lexfeathers "Big Tech doesn't care if you want AI or not. They should.", written by the same company who added "AI" overview to their search without asking us...

I wonder what they'll do with the results, whether it'll make them reconsider it or not

@vaporeon_ Oh I doubt it will do anything other than confirm what they already know, but it's a good joke.

@lexfeathers @vaporeon_ yeah I think this is mostly just to promote that their "AI" features are optional and can be toggled off, unlike with some other services. The poll reinforces the "you have a choice" message

@lexfeathers @vaporeon_ Do you think they've recreated this Simpsons bit with their limited pin giveaway (which I'm linking to just so I can get that stupid pin)?
https://VoteYesOrNoAI.com/vote/no
https://youtu.be/3r7SNzYYcfc

@IntrepidVector @lexfeathers I see... Not really a choice if you clear cookies regularly and it defaults to it turned on and not to it turned off... I avoid it by going to https://lite.duckduckgo.com, the version without JavaScripts and without LLMs, but it doesn't have picture search, so for picture search I instead have to remember to type in https://noai.duckduckgo.com, which is somewhat annoying...

@vaporeon_ @IntrepidVector Yeah it's not great. Afaik some browsers are offering it as a default search engine? I heard librewolf is in talks about adding it as a default option.

@lexfeathers @IntrepidVector You mean lite.duckduckgo.com as default search engine? I can confirm that Librewolf does offer that, I switched to Librewolf recently over the Firefox LLM stuff and set the default engine to lite.duckduckgo.com

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

Kinda... kinda looks like we do?

@vaporeon_ @IntrepidVector I mean noai.duckduckgo

@req correct.

https://noai.duckduckgo.com/?q=%s

is the url to add in Firefox.

@lexfeathers Just clicked the funny "No" button.

@lexfeathers @vaporeon_ @IntrepidVector you can set it up as a custom search engine and then select it by default, that way all searches go to noai search. Even those from the address bar.

Instructions below for FireFox and forks thereof.

https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@skylark13/115905866049449231

@foxyloon If waterfox works like firefox, you should be able to go to Settings > Search, and then add a new search engine at the bottom with the following URL:

https://noai.duckduckgo.com/?q=%s

Then, select it from the search engine options at the top of that settings page.

@lexfeathers mwahahahaha https://voteyesornoai.com/vote/no

@lexfeathers Has the question be created by AI? - Bc I strongly advocate using ai to assist doctors with finding good diagnoses but I strongly oppose using ai to creat dumb pictures.