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If you vote Yes AI, you get a link to https://yesai.duckduckgo.com/ https://yesai.duckduckgo.com/ which references http://duck.ai/ http://duck.ai/, DDG's AI pla
by minimaxir 10mo ago
If you vote Yes AI, you get a link to https://yesai.duckduckgo.com/ https://yesai.duckduckgo.com/ which references http://duck.ai/ http://duck.ai/, DDG's AI platform, and the passionate anti-AI people don't like anything AI adjacent which DDG is doing.
DDG is trying to have their cake and eat it too.
- add-sub-mul-div 10mo agoWhat does having both an AI and a non-AI mode have to do with the vote not being a representative sample? Did they promote this vote exclusively to one camp or the other?
- minimaxir 10mo agoAnother aspect of internet polls as a marketing technique (and a poor source of representative opinion) is to implicitly encourage voters to brigade a certain option, which just increases visibility to the poll especially if it's a contentious topic. Case in point: https://bsky.app/profile/lexfeathers.ca/post/3mckp3y57d52b https://bsky.app/profile/lexfeathers.ca/post/3mckp3y57d52b
- Grimblewald 10mo agoWorks in my books. All everyone ever wanted was transparency and a choice, and this does that. AI should be opt in, not use-it-or-else.
- freehorse 10mo agoAs long as they dont force people eat the cake, it sounds fine?
- whattheheckheck 10mo agoNo ai goes to it too