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DuckDuckGo made sunglasses that do absolutely nothing, and they sold out (www.techspot.com)
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[–] 0 points 3 months ago (6 children)

Yes we are talking about ddg which has roughly 100 million users and put out a poll to which 175k said they didnt want AI.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    What’s neat about an open poll like the one they ran is that it includes most of the people who care about weighing in. Maybe you can read an AI summary about statistically relevant sample sizes? It might be more useful to learn about the math, or to skip the summary and find a useful website, like this calculator from Qualtrics that will show you that a sample size of 175,000 is more than 10 times what you’d need to achieve a roughly 99% level of confidence with a 1% margin of error.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago

    Yes that is a good sample size but its biased by the people weighing in caring most about the issue. If it was 175000 users sampled randomly from the DDG user base then yes it would be a good predictor but it wasnt.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (3 children)

    You're assuming that everyone who didn't answer the poll is for AI, not exactly a good assumption considering the poll results.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (2 children)

    Im not making that assumption at all.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (1 child)

    You're constantly arguing that the sample is so strongly skewed against your position that the proportion of people who want AI is over 4 times (!) as much as in the sample. "Everyone" is an exaggeration, but the point remains. If you believe the sample is that skewed, then you have to provide evidence.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago

    Thats not what I'm arguing. I'm saying most people dont care enough either way and based off research and polling ive seen that most people do use the features. So if most people use them and only a tiny fraction wants them gone you should keep them default and give those people a toggle.

    When I'm saying 175k out of 100m I'm pointing out that its a tiny % of the user base. The people who were engaged enough to vote in that poll were the anti AI people. It was posted to all the anti AI subreddits and twitter feeds. It was a big call to action to try and prove no one wants it.

    Its obviously where search is heading which is why ddg mentions in their blogs that they are working heavily on AI features. They have always been receptive to users so unlike google so they do give users the option to disable. If they had data that most were disabling we'd see that be the default.

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