Yes AI or No AI, that is the question
AI is everywhere. Did anyone give you a choice?
Many people want to opt out of AI features right now, but most tech companies are ignoring them. At DuckDuckGo our approach to AI is to only make AI features that are useful, private, and optional. Whether you are Yes AI or No AI, or somewhere in between, we think you deserve a product that gives you the option of whether or not to use AI features.
Today we officially launched VoteYesOrNoAi.com, where you can personally weigh in on this question in a live public vote tallied anonymously by country and U.S. state.
Where do you stand?
We’ve also created two new versions of our search engine that tune settings to cater to both sides:
noai.duckduckgo.com - turns off Search Assist, buttons to Duck.ai, and automatically turns on the hide AI images filter.
yesai.duckduckgo.com - tunes Search Assist to often, features Duck.ai on the homepage, and turns off the hide AI images filter.
You can also customize the search settings at duckduckgo.com for something in between.
The question is not Yes or No to AI where I'm left with a devil of a time if I choose No ...
The question is Yes or No to Privacy where I sell my soul to the devil if I choose No!
Today, AI is Search 3.0 with 3 new features that make it more than a query and just like a friend!
1. Instead of unwieldy lists of links, I get a focused response from a seemingly all-knowing expert.
2. Furthermore, I have control over the nature of responses, short or long, profound or fun.
3. The result is an alluring dialog with the likes of Socrates, Shakespeare or perhaps even Sagan.
So if given a choice, who would not say YES to AI once they get comfortable with it.
There must be a catch ... it's the Privacy, stupid!
Data, my data, my soul, has become the gold rush for GOOG, GROK, META, MSFT and OpenAI!
1. I may think I can tell AI everything since it won't judge or tell but I'd be grossly mistaken.
2. In fact, every word I type is being pumped into datacenters taking over our landscape.
3. And without Privacy, my IP, my digital fingerprint is attached so they know who I am.
Is there a sure fire way for me and others like me that use AI to save our souls from this devil?
Say YES to DDG (https://www.duckduckgo.com) a company of integrity committed to Privacy!