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Don't use the AI then. That's kind of the point of this poll/marketing-campaign, to show it can easily be turned off for DDG.
NoAI should be the default version and the people that want it can go to ai.duckduckgo(.)com
Yeah, absolutely.
Currently the default is the AI being on. It’s why I personally changed search engines for my browser because I don’t want the damn AI
Same here. I'm using noai.duckduckgo.com as the default address and it's working great for me, should you ever decide to return. Some slop articles get through but not many and now I get no AI images at all as far as I can tell. I also have the huge AI blocklist going so I couldn't tell you which is helping more, but it never stopped the AI images and noai.duckduckgo.com absolutely does.
Some AI pics truly creep me out; it's that uncanny valley thing. For me a hint of it is somehow even worse than having an image that is obviously, overtly AI. It is such a relief to open an image search and not see a bunch of unnatural shite that only puts the hair on the back of my neck up.
I was hoping that block list was going to include AI generated articles. It's just images though sadly. I don't like the use of AI images, but they also generally don't waste my time. When I read an article, only to realize it's made up AI bullshit, that wastes a lot of time.
That's fair. Just wanted to point it out to the user I replied to, who seemingly still uses it but doesn't realize they don't need to have that worse experience.
Unless one makes sure to stay logged into DDG you’re always going to get the default. So for all intents and purposes yeah you do “need.” To use the worst experience.
Nope. It saves your settings across searches. You can also use https://noai.duckduckgo.com/, no need to login.
It can't save your settings if you're using incognito or block all cookies etc. (edit: so I'm using the noai link from now on)
Sure, in which case you can use the alternate URL.
I think we have a misunderstanding. I am referring to duckduckgo.com. Not the no ai version.