Every poll is instantly skewed with the user base. I think Ai is amazing, but it's not worth the hype. Im cautious about its actual uses and its spectacular failures. Im not a Fuck AI person. But im also not an Ai is going to be our God in 2 years person. And I feel like im more the average.
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See, this poll is instantly skewed by haters.
Most people against Ai probably have their nose in SearXNG and 4get.
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.
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
Now can we have a poll from Dr. Thunder about what we went our Cola to taste like?
How many people want Bing results as well?Coll stick to Searx
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.
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.
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.
That’s true for pretty much everything, so not a real argument
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Yeah. I'm actually kind of upset that I have to type 'noai'. That should be the standard.
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The article already notes that
privacy-focused users who don’t want “AI” in their search are more likely to use DuckDuckGo
But the opposite is also true. Maybe it’s not 90% to 10% elsewhere, but I’d expect the same general imbalance because some people who would answer yes to ai in a survey on a search web site don’t go to search web sites in the first place. They go to ChatGPT or whatever.
It still creeps me out that people use LLMs as search engines nowadays.
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