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DuckDuckGo made sunglasses that do absolutely nothing, and they sold out
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I maintain that this should be the default behavior and the AI be opt-in
I'd say most people don't really care
Most people are idiots.
As mostly a person I'm offended!
As an idiot, I am too!
This comment is unnecessarily dismissive and unhelpful.
If people don't care, then they won't care if it's gone either. And that's the better option.
If enough people were that bothered about a box with an AI overview, it wouldn't be there. Simple as that. The thing is that the overview turns out to be helpful in some cases, despite what the haters think.
No, the act of a company shoving something bad down people's throats does not prove it's what they wanted. You should know this.
We have polls that have calculated people's sentiment. They are sick of AI .
Ok, if people hate AI so much, you'll see it being gone soon. No company would want to spend money keeping an useless feature, principally DDG, which is no monopoly.
Also, that poll is about Americans, I don't give a shit what Americans think.
That's not how capitalism works. If you genuinely believe in the Invisible Hand Of The Market, you shouldn't.
And you should know better: just days ago , you were telling people capitalism, not AI, was the real villain, which makes your tone here come across as trollish.
This isn't really about the invisible hand of the market, I was talking about a single company. It costs money to keep those models up, which DDG itself hosts. If we were taking about Google, for example, then I could see the argument since it is a monopoly and my line of reasoning wouldn't work.
I'm not trying to be troll as you accuse, I'm just trying to think from different perspectives and have something less sensitive to ideology.
We don't find out the truth by agreeing with everything that panders to our beliefs.
lol.
if you think people aren't sick of this trash, you're leading a very sheltered life and need to get outside and speak with humans, not just ask your llm what to think.
If you think people deeply hate AI as you seem to do, maybe you should take your own advice, because the humans I talk with in a daily basis on my job are completely ok with it.
If you think that your colleagues represent the majority of people, you may be in for a rude awakening.
I live in Seattle. The local trade schools are filling up with programmers learning to be carpenters because they hate AI so much.
genuinely doubt you're being truthful unless you work at one of the hyperscalers.
I know people working on model design who are growing to despise the entire thing.
Recently, my mom killed one of her plants, because she searched for something to use as organic fertilizer and the ai summary suggested to add coffee grounds mixed with water daily. She realized it was a fake information and isn't trusting anything from internet searchers anymore. I wonder if at some point it will happen to most non-tech people, and search usage will go down heavily.
Coffee grounds can be helpful to add to fertilizer, but you need more than just coffee grounds: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11241280/
This being partially right is probably exactly how it ended up in the training data. But AI is too dumb to understand which parts are relevant/important.
wrong.
lol
here's two links to give you an idea where the AI shit is going:
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/google-data-center-fort-wayne-indiana-wetlands
https://www.404media.co/city-that-arrested-person-for-clapping-at-data-center-meeting-moves-to-virtual-townhalls-for-public-safety/
Folks can configure this as their homepage, search engine, etc.
When you use the site for the first time and search something where AI overview is available, it shows a toggle for how often you want to see it, with "sometimes" as middle ground being the default. Without showing that a feature exists, it's hard to decide if you want to use it or not. And since peoples opinion about it seems pretty spit, I think that is pretty valid.
Or would you rather have a cookie-popup like choice box pop up every time you use the service without cookies enabled asking you for your preference? Because that would annoy me very much.
Exactly my thoughts.
DuckDuckGo (plus AI) enjoys default search engine status on a lot of browsers, and many of them make it difficult to set a custom one (like NoAI). Especially mobile browsers, and apparently even Safari makes it a pain.
(Edited to clarify what I meant by default)
Settings > Search > Search Engine > DuckDuckGo
(Firefox) Settings > Search > Default Search engine > Add search engine or select one of the offered ones
Idk about Chrome and the other Chrorium based ones but should be as simple, if not, then you should first think about using a better browser