This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
As much as I agree with this poll, duck duck go is a very self selecting audience. The number doesn’t actually mean much statistically.
If the general public knew that “AI” is much closer to predictive text than intelligence they might be more wary of it
There was no implication that this was a general poll designed to demonstrate the general public’s attitudes. I’m not sure why you mentioned this.
As a DuckDuckGo user who uses claude and ChatGPT every day, I don’t want AI features in duck duck go because I probably would never use them. So many companies are adding chatbot features and most of them can’t compete with the big names. Why would I use a bunch of worse LLMs and learn a bunch of new interfaces when I can just use the ones I’m already comfortable with
user who uses claude and ChatGPT every day
Just for the record, when I read this my reaction was "f*ck this person in specific".
Purveyor of fine slop, are ya?
Even that I would consider wildly unjust. User data would HAVE to be opt IN.
I see the shit that people send out, obvious LLM crap, and wonder how poor they must write to consider the LLM output worth something. And then wonder if the people consuming this LLM crap are OK with baseline mediocrity at best. And that's not even getting into the ethical issues of using it.
I would like to petition to rename AI to
Simulated
Human
Intelligence
Technology
or: computer rendered anonymized plagiarism
The other 10% are bots
At least they have an AI-free option, as annoying as it is to have to opt into it.
On a related note, it's hilarious to me that the Ecosia search engine has AI built in. Like, I don't think planting any number of trees is going to offset the damage AI has done and will do to the planet.
Most objective article (sarcasm)
In fact it has a whole-ass “AI” chatbot product, Duck.ai, which is bundled in with DuckDuckGo’s privacy VPN for $10 a month
I think most people find something like chatgpt and copilot useful in their day to day lives. LLMs are a very helpful and powerful technology. However, most people are against these models collecting every piece of data imaginable from you. People are against the tech, they're against the people running the tech.
I don't think most people would mind if a FOSS LLM, that's designed with privacy and complete user control over their data, was integrated with an option to completely opt out. I think that's the only way to get people to trust this tech again and be onboard.
In the non tech crowds I have talked to about these tools, they have been mostly concerned with them just being wrong, and when they are integrated with other software, also annoyingly wrong.
I think you're wildly overestimating how much people care about their personal data.
If I understand right, the usefulness of basic questions like "Hey ChatGPT, how long do I boil pasta" is offset by the vast resources needed to answer that question. We just see it as simple and convenient as it tries to invest in its "build up interest" phase and runs at a loss. If the effort to sell the product that way fails, it's going to fund itself by harvesting data.
We can say maybe a personal LLM trained on data that you actually already own and having the infrastructure being self efficient sure but visual generation llms and data theft isn’t cool
We can agree to that
I'm enjoying how ludicrous the idea of a "privacy friendly AI" is- trained on stolen data from inhaling everyone else's data from the internet, but cares suddenly about "your" data.
It's not impossible. You could build a model that's built on consent where the data it's trained on is obtained ethically, data collected from users is anonymized, and users can opt out if they want to. The current model of shameless theft isn't the only path there is.
I think the idea is anonymous querying.
I think you may find yourself in the minority.
I think LLMs are fine for specific uses. A useful technology for brainstorming, debugging code, generic code examples, etc. People are just weary of oligarchs mandating how we use technology. We want to be customers but they want to instead shape how we work, as if we are livestock
Yeah. I'm actually kind of upset that I have to type 'noai'. That should be the standard.
Okay, so that’s not what the article says. It says that 90% of respondents don’t want AI search.
Moreover, the article goes into detail about how DuckDuckGo is still going to implement AI anyway.
Seriously, titles in subs like this need better moderation.
The title was clearly engineered to generate clicks and drive engagement. That is not how journalism should function.
That is the title from the news article. It might not be how good journalism would work, but copying the title of the source is pretty standard in most news aggregator communities.
Well, that's how journalism has always functioned. People call it "clickbait" as if it's something new, but headlines have always been designed to grab your attention and get you to read.
I guess they haven’t asked me or it’d be 91%
You've been learning statistics from an LLM, haven't you?
I’m a proud graduate from the Terrence Howard school of math.
Had to look him up. Gold.
1 * 1 = 2, because reasons
