This isn’t about being “pro-AI” or “anti-AI”.
It’s about choice.
AI is being integrated into operating systems, browsers, and apps by default often without consent, opt-out clarity, or transparency.
DuckDuckGo’s message highlights a growing concern: Should users be allowed to decide if and how AI shows up in their tools?
Optionality matters especially in privacy-focused software.
DuckDuckGo’s public vote: https://voteyesornoai.com/
Vote, discuss, and share your perspective respectfully.
Pushes back on the thing they forced?
Oof
Opt-in, always opt-in. If I want AI in my browser or OS I will add it. Don’t make me have to ignore it in search(I often scroll past the AI summary at the top, sometimes I read it and go to the site to verify it didn’t hallucinate), I’d rather it not be there unless I opt-in. A friend uses it to help me in games sometimes, it is more often wrong than correct confusing other games with the one stated in search. I know they “need to add it” for whatever bs reason they have but I do not need it nor do I want it. Maybe one day it will be a great tool, but at this moment it is as often a screwdriver as it is a hammer, when I need a screwdriver for this screw. Ever tried to hammer a screw?
I just made it my default search engine
I utilize AI every day and am excited for the tech. Still no…
I would be excited for the tech if it wasn’t being frantically rolled out as fast as possible to usher in the new age of feudalism for the rest of us while we should be putting that much effort into fighting climate change…