this post was submitted on 06 Jul 2026
300 points (98.1% liked)
Fuck AI
7609 readers
752 users here now
"We did it, Patrick! We made a technological breakthrough!"
A place for all those who loathe AI to discuss things, post articles, and ridicule the AI hype. Proud supporter of working people. And proud booer of SXSW 2024.
AI, in this case, refers to LLMs, GPT technology, and anything listed as "AI" meant to increase market valuations.
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
DuckDuckGo did a site-wide poll about 6 months ago asking their users if they wanted AI or not. It was on their homepage. 90% answered "no".
What did they do in response? ... nothing. It didn't fit their preconceived notions and apparent agenda, so they've just completely ignored it. The customer is always right, except when they don't want AI, then they're just wrong.
that poll was an ad for their noai service. nothing more.
Indeed, just funny that they bragged about how they were paying attention that most didn't want ai.. But still defaulted to ai instead of making the proclaimed unpopular one optional.
And now they have AI, despite literally no one wanting it
A AI you have to chose to enable. If literally no one wants it, it won't be used.