Honestly, I'm surprised. Was expecting something close to 50/50 or maybe 40% yes, 60% no but this is hilarious and heartening:

Not sure I’m surprised. Besides the reasons other people mentioned, I think there’s another factor influencing it.

I suspect a lot of “Yes AI” voters are really thinking “well, it’s kinda neat”. But us “No AI” voters are really thinking “HELL NO!!! Under no circumstances do we want AI!”

I’m guessing that makes us a lot more motivated to respond.

"We don't all feel the same way about AI."

Literally 95% of users: uh, yeah we kinda do.

There are people genuinely believe that they want to handle all personal data to AI and it would be good for them. However, those people tend not to use DDG. So it's self-selecting the audience.

Encase anyone wants the ddg no ai option https://noai.duckduckgo.com/

Nice. 94-6% now with over 18,000 votes.

It has made my experience with DDG immeasurably worse. It's not necessarily that the results are bad, but the performance impact is completely unacceptable.

"Thanks for voting — You’d rather skip AI. With DuckDuckGo, you can, because it’s optional."

It shouldn't even be an option, AI Has no fucking business being shoved into anything. Just stop.

Uh-oh, nobody show this to Jensen Huang, it would break his little heart.

They literally can't help themselves lol

I don't need a pin. I put my vote in. It's 97-3 now on my screen with 1072 votes in... is lemmy 1% of this sample now?

Proud "no" voter chiming in.

Remember what you saw before the results will be "fixed".

Ah this warms my heart ❤️

Funny. I just started looking into Kagi because Duck Duck Go's AI results have completely ruined the search engine.

I mean, this is naturally going to be lopsided. Most people probably just don't care. And the people who do will brigade the voting (like is happening in this thread).