this post was submitted on 20 Jan 2026
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Fuck AI
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Edit: 15 hours later it is still 93%. I am getting suspicious this isn't real.
i dont use DDG and still went to vote NO AI.
It was 94% when I first looked at it a few days ago
Next up, from DDG:
"Oops, looks like we lost the data of the voting, so we'll just assume YES won because everyone loves Copilot AI, which is the best AI and has nothing to do with us having a contract with Microsoft!"
Technically, with 93%, it's safe to say, that we all feel the same about AI.
Yeah, the Pro-AI vote is getting close to the lizardman constant.
I'm seeing 79,264 votes with the same percentages now.
70k+ is a good representation of the users. Plenty of data points they can extrapolate and all of them point to scrapping AI. Good. Save some money and skip the slop trough.
It's not a survey. It's an ad. It's an ad for noai.duckduckgo.com. The fact that we're thinking it and talking about it means it was a good ad. But it's just an ad. The numbers are entirely meaningless.
Nothing about this ad says that they are scrapping AI. They aren't. They still provide AI by default. This is a way for the end user to opt out of that default.
I answered yes to see what happened. It tells me "Thanks for voting — You’re into AI. With DuckDuckGo, you can use it privately. Try Duck.ai"
No idea where they're going to take it from here, just wanted to provide some insight on the other option.
Good, maybe now they can make it opt-in.