DuckDuckGo made sunglasses that do absolutely nothing, and they sold out
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https://noai.duckduckgo.com/
I maintain that this should be the default behavior and the AI be opt-in
I would argue a good 99% of what we experience in life should be opt-in and yet here we are. Use of AI, companies getting our data, etc is all opt-out meanwhile organ donation is opt-in. Wtf.
Folks can configure this as their homepage, search engine, etc.
When you use the site for the first time and search something where AI overview is available, it shows a toggle for how often you want to see it, with “sometimes” as middle ground being the default. Without showing that a feature exists, it’s hard to decide if you want to use it or not. And since peoples opinion about it seems pretty spit, I think that is pretty valid.
Or would you rather have a cookie-popup like choice box pop up every time you use the service without cookies enabled asking you for your preference? Because that would annoy me very much.
AI is the future of search and I dont see anyway that changes. The user experience of AI search is way to good, average users love the summary at the top of their search. Almost every report i’ve seen shows over 50% of people using AI for search and that tracks with what I see in people i know in real life.
I’m a DDG user and I do not want them to handicap themselves to pass a purity test.
Then opt in. We shouldn’t have to opt out to avoid padding the AI numbers.
Its a generalized product targeting average people. Average people dont care AI/No AI they want the results and they use the AI summaries. If DDG hid it then they would just think it doesnt exist and go use google which provides them faster more convenient results.
We’re talking about the same duckduckgo that had a huge poll about this right? The only data point that exists regarding what people want is that of the 175,354 users who took the poll, only 10% wanted AI features.
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.
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.
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.
You're assuming that everyone who didn't answer the poll is for AI, not exactly a good assumption considering the poll results.
Im not making that assumption at all.
And I bet those 10% were willing to opt in. Fucking sloppers incapable of giving a shit about truth. They want to kill the very concept. They’re literally enemies of truth. Even fucking skeletor didn’t hate the fucking concept of truth.
Also, in my experience people who dislike AI features are often more tech-savvy in my experience. And tech-savvy people tend to know “hidden” subdomains such as “noai.” and how to change the default engine’s URL string whereas non-savvy tend to not know that.
So even if the majority would be against these AI features it might make more sense to make AI the default and noai opt-in. Because you’d lose more non-savvy people having no-AI as default than you lose tech-savvy people with having AI as default (I assume).
Maybe im to tech-brained but I dont think its a technical barrier. I think that they just dont care enough. One search of “how to remove AI from DDG” would bring it up but they never care about the issue enough to take that first step.
I sometimes observe this with my family members, who will complain “oh I dont like how it does X” and I say you can turn that off in the settings and then they dont. It was a minor complain they had but not an actual complain they wanted to solve.
Maybe DDG should do the firefox route of a popup to disable all AI for new users.
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Its not a thought terminating cliche if you didnt cut the next word out. You can argue if AI is the future of search, I think there is a strong case that its proven very good at general information retrieval.
How did search engine companies go out of their way to make normal searches worse? I search I get relevant results and its been that way for the past 20 years. Nothing has changed that has made search worse than it was 5 years ago. The only change is that people have recently gotten a choice between a google search or a chatgpt question and they were increasingly choosing chatgpt. fast forward to current day and that divide has only increased.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Searching
This used to be a bare bones version of what you could do on literally every search engine. I had a high school class about this. 50/50 whether you got a ‘business’ teacher who didn’t know how to open PDF or the librarian who’d go on digressions about information theory and optimal solutions.
In the late 2010s google followed immediately by other large search engines started removing these features and actively showing users worse results so they would do more searches and get shown more ads.
Your shit won’t fly here, slopper.
You can still search on search engines some searches dont even have any ads. So what feature was removed? They actively started showing worse results ok what did they do?
Search engines still search same as they did in the 2010s. They have had ads for decades. It hasnt increased you search you see an ad or two or even none.
Your replies are equivalent to AI slop. If you are going to write something please at least think about what you are writing.
Bad faith slopper lies. Why bother to copy-paste? What are you using to generate BTW.
None of what ive said is AI generated. You’re just a moron.
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Ai search results are ass
Asses are cute sometimes. They can also be great for sex!
Neither virtue possessed by “ai” search results.
Of course they do, 50% of the users don’t fucking know how to disable it or that you can change search engine
People are intentionally going to LLM chatbots to search. This is not including viewing of AI summaries as AI search.
Didn’t google actively degrade their search engine to force more adverts in. and I should imagine a further degradation since AI summery to make us more dependent.
I’m looking forward to when AI fully closes-in, people are deskilled and the key holders are able to pump coercive non explicit adverting into AI, we won’t even realize we had been sold something we didn’t already want /s
Their AI is terrible
Having a search algorithm be AI based and having an LLM summary of “the web” is two completely different things.
DDG provides both because its what users expect from a search engine now.
Its wrong though. Its wrong so fucking often. There’s no way to fix that. I stopped using ddg because of this. Pandering to right wing idiots does not necessarily mean being smart, that’s thatcherite Nazi coddling lies.
I’d say most people don’t really care
Most people are idiots.
As mostly a person I’m offended!
As an idiot, I am too!
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If enough people were that bothered about a box with an AI overview, it wouldn’t be there. Simple as that. The thing is that the overview turns out to be helpful in some cases, despite what the haters think.
Recently, my mom killed one of her plants, because she searched for something to use as organic fertilizer and the ai summary suggested to add coffee grounds mixed with water daily. She realized it was a fake information and isn’t trusting anything from internet searchers anymore. I wonder if at some point it will happen to most non-tech people, and search usage will go down heavily.
Coffee grounds can be helpful to add to fertilizer, but you need more than just coffee grounds: pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11241280/
This being partially right is probably exactly how it ended up in the training data. But AI is too dumb to understand which parts are relevant/important.
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Settings > Search > Search Engine > DuckDuckGo
(Firefox) Settings > Search > Default Search engine > Add search engine or select one of the offered ones
Idk about Chrome and the other Chrorium based ones but should be as simple, if not, then you should first think about using a better browser
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I know its not DDG but default behavior is no AI overview (which you can still ger by explicitly asking for it if that’s what you need).
Yep. Usually an AI overview will just piss me off, but sometimes I do want it. In those cases, I add a question mark to the end of my query. It’s easy.
(example: “could you find me 3 different premium pull-down attic ladders and summarize what makes them nice?” because I don’t want to wade through marketing until I have to. Also, y’all, feel free to brag about your attic ladder. Mine is aluminum, feels like it’s going to attack me when I pull it down, and has inadequate hand/guard rail for something next to an open stairway. The scissor-style ones look nice.)
I took the time to read the fine print, and these glasses appear to sense the vector of reflected light and specifically filter out waves with a horizontal orientation. The processimg power needed to do this will mean these must have an uncomfortably large battery or require frequent charging.
Polarization is kind of just magic. Which means these sunglasses might actually require mana points to use.
Fortunately it’s that awe inspiring battery technology where the power can be remotely stored and transmitted over millions of kilometers.
Quantum Power™©
I think it uses nanotechnology to just do it automatically.
Think it will require age verification?
Well not nothing. They do block the sun.
so can litery anything else
Clear glass. A ziplock bag. Wind. Thoughts and prayers. Sunblock - dammit.
The most wild feature avout my sunglasses are that they have air pockets in the arms so they float if dropped in water.
I got one of those foam things that stick to the arms and make it float
Mine have interchangeable lenses, so I can swap them out for yellow or clear lenses if the light isn’t so bright but I still want UV protection, protection from magpies, or something to block the wind in my eyes.
Sunglasses dont do ‘absolitely nothing’.
People will constantly cry about the fact that I’m not putting on sunscreen while they’re going out in the sun without sunglasses.
People are dumb. I could technically remove a cancerous mole myself, I can’t remove eye cancer myself. Or somehow unfuck my eyes once they’re damaged.
If you think you're able to just remove skin cancer yourself, sorry but holy shit you're delusional.
If I cut the arm that has the cancerous mole on it off - the skin cancer is gone. Granted, I was thinking more carving it out - you know, the way doctors do.
look up „metastasis“ if your cancer does this, you cant just remove an visible „mole“. Its a bad idea anyway but with metastasis its impossible
No. Do not do this. This is how you end up with terrible cancer that spreads. Doctors don’t just start hacking away to carve out skin cancer. You are absolutely delusional or terribly misinformed like the person above said if you think you can just cut off the cancer at home.
It quite literally is just hacking away you moron - my uncle has had hundreds of cancerous moles removed, they literally cut away more flesh than just the mole to ensure the cancer doesn’t spread.
Fucks sake
This is you:
Since you’re the smart one, and we’re all morons, I’ll defer to your expertise. You should totally just hack away at your suspected cancerous moles at home. Probably you should use a dull kitchen knife or whatever. Good luck!
And you’re sitting here suggesting that I’m wrong about cutting your fucking arm off to get rid of cancer.
Of course I’m not advocating that someone back alley ripper docs the fucking cancer out you trog
Yeah we’ve already established that you’re the super duper smartest person ever. But you can’t back out now! Especially after you cut all those moles off your Uncle Lindsey’s butthole or whatever. You gotta get in that kitchen, pull out that knife, and technically cut off all those cancer moles. We won’t try to talk you out of it again I swear!
This guy you’re replying to is literally an absolute joke. Something is wrong with him I think
But of course it does something. It blocks light, and let a man stare at boobs discreetly.
Hey, don’t be sexist… They also let women stare at boobs discreetly
You’re right. Women also like to stare at boobs.
Another use case I failed to mention: staring at butts.
my socks also lack video recording or generative AI integration. perhaps i should sell them to eBay
They’ll go for more if you don’t wash them before selling.
Not if he sells the water he used to wash it as sock juice
Normalizing glasses that look like Facebook perv glasses isn’t something I would want.
Glasses that have cameras should require red led to be on at all times by law (when turned on).
I believe the Facebook glasses do have this.
The problem is just that the light is rather easy for an end-user to remove. And that it may be too dim to clearly see in brighter situations.
Ya I don’t mind being filmed in a public setting. But you know ppl be weird with that shit
That’s cool. Way cooler if they were polarized though.
Did you read the link?
No - at least I’m homest. By your reply I guess they are. Thanks.
I have a pair of prescription, self darkening lenses in cheap frames that look like the DDG ones, and no one has ever given me a second glance when I wear them in public places.
On an only semi-related note, photochromics are super dope and are definitely one of those technologies that make me feel like I’m living in the cool future we were promised.
While we’re talking about glasses technology, it seems like oil resistant coatings have finally gotten really good. My eyebrows are pretty oily and would smear on the top middle corners of my glasses all the time. But my latest pair just has a tiny bit of smudging there. I can press them against my face and wiggle my eyebrows right against them and it’s still only a bit smudged.
I thought that too for a while, but the shine has worn off of photochromics for me because all the ones I’ve owned have lasted grand total of about a year or in some cases less before they’ve worn out and no longer darken in the sun. The longest lasting chunk of the stuff I’ve ever managed to own was the visor on my motorcycle helmet, a Bell Qualifier DLX, but that also had the tradeoff of never actually getting dark enough to be useful so I had to wear normal sunglasses under it anyway which really rather defeats the purpose.
Instead when I’m feeling particularly cyberpunk these days I bust out my old pair of CTRL shades. They have their own inherent drawback though, in that even though I managed to score my pair free through my job at the time I’m still afraid to do anything heavy duty while wearing them lest I break the damn things. That’s because it’d cost me $300 for another pair.
That’s totally fair. Ive never owned a pair since there isnt really a reason if you dont need prescription glasses so I didnt realize they could wear out so fast, but the concept and material science is really cool nonetheless
People give me second looks, but that’s more because they’re sexy AF.
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Will these work for the upcoming eclipse?
I assume you are joking but just in case you aren’t: no, regular sunglasses are never sufficient for protecting your eyes from an eclipse.
Didn’t read but should advertise as smart glasses sarcastically
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Plot twist: goverment applied vaccines through the air and this is government’s survey on side effects.
i like my gold-mirrored clipons too much to drift
Beautiful, chefs kiss *
Dump people compensate with smart devices, they buy garbage trying to look smart.
Any one with a smartwatch looks dumber to me…
Can’t spell dumb for someone calling people dumb