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Link for the lazy: https://voteyesornoai.com/
Huh, if you select "No" it gives you an option to go to an alternate DDG homepage "noai.duckduckgo.com". But it looks like if you just go to their normal homepage, they've got a link to DuckAI at the top, searching for images defaults to including AI images, and they have a Search Assist that uses AI as well.
So even though the overwhelming majority of their users have responded "No AI", they're still defaulting everyone to the "Yes AI" experience unless you use an alternate URL. That's kind of shitty. I mean at least they have a "no" option, but seems like it should be the default.
First of all, the vote is from last week, so no measures have been taken yet. The vote is still live.
Secondly I think it was more of an ad for their AI, that backfired, because if I remember correctly, the "no" answer didn't provide the link to noai.duckduckgo.com when I first answered.
Lastly, I hope that this does change some minds in their C-suite. Having no AI as a standard would be a good start, but them filtering AI images is actually a bonus. This should be expanded upon.
Maybe this poll is to see if they should switch it to off by default?
The lazy, of course, being OP who went through the trouble to... post a picture instead of anything useful.
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