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[–] thegoodyinthehoody@sh.itjust.works 8 points 54 minutes ago (1 children)

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

[–] ikirin@feddit.org 1 points 24 minutes ago

I mean you Gotta Hand it to "Ai" - it is very sophisticated, and Ressource intensive predicitive Text.

[–] Gorilladrums@lemmy.world 1 points 26 minutes ago (1 children)

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.

[–] MBech@feddit.dk 3 points 18 minutes ago

I think you're wildly overestimating how much people care about their personal data.

[–] Butterphinger@lemmy.zip 1 points 37 minutes ago

Most people against Ai probably have their nose in SearXNG and 4get.

[–] Thor_Whale@lemmus.org 1 points 47 minutes ago

I find Google Gemini to be useless and annoying. I do enjoy grok but I don't think life would end if we walked away from Ai tomorrow.

[–] elbiter@lemmy.world 8 points 5 hours ago

The other 10% are bots

[–] Electricd@lemmybefree.net 4 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

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

[–] Korne127@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

What's wrong about this?

[–] mlody@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago

Oh, I meet you again. I haven't logged in for a long time 😅

[–] Tyrq@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (3 children)

I would like to petition to rename AI to

Simulated
Human
Intelligence
Technology

[–] pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

or: computer rendered anonymized plagiarism

[–] Son_of_Macha@lemmy.cafe 3 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

It's funny but it still lies about intelligence

[–] Tyrq@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 4 hours ago

'Intelligence' is a measure, not an absolute. Human intelligence can range anywhere from genius to troglodyte. But you're right, still not human, still at very best simulated, and isn't capable of reason, just the illusion of reason.

[–] WanderWisley@lemmy.world 4 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

I would like to petition to rename AI to

Fucking stupid and useless

[–] generic_computers@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 hour ago

FSAU? That's not a word.

[–] Electricd@lemmybefree.net 0 points 5 hours ago

Tell me you don’t know shit about LLMs without telling me so:

[–] Electricd@lemmybefree.net 0 points 5 hours ago

Most people wanting AI probably don’t use DDG though. Else they would use Brave Search I guess

I haven’t seen the poll though

[–] FordBeeblebrox@lemmy.world 17 points 16 hours ago (3 children)

I guess they haven’t asked me or it’d be 91%

[–] 0x0@lemmy.zip 1 points 59 minutes ago

You've been learning statistics from an LLM, haven't you?

[–] Snapz@lemmy.world 8 points 12 hours ago

This guy knows the SHIT out of statistics!

[–] Abundance114@lemmy.world -1 points 6 hours ago

Now can we have a poll from Dr. Thunder about what we went our Cola to taste like?

[–] Grainne@lemmy.dbzer0.com -3 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

How many people want Bing results as well?Coll stick to Searx

[–] MrKoyun@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

Bing gets shat on too much. I used it for a while a couple years ago and other than the usual microslop shadyness it was a completely fine search engine and the search results were fine.

[–] mechoman444@lemmy.world 18 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

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.

[–] squaresinger@lemmy.world 4 points 6 hours ago

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.

[–] Doctorbllk@slrpnk.net 8 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Unless I'm mistaken this title is generated to match the title at the link. Are you saying the mods should update titles to accurately reflect the content of the articles posted?

[–] TomArrr@lemmy.world 5 points 14 hours ago

Also, Duck Duck Go is a search engine. What other ai would it do?

[–] dantheclamman@lemmy.world 36 points 23 hours ago (11 children)

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

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