Are You YES AI or No AI? • Hacker News Board

Re: Are You YES AI or No AI?

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Post by ismailmaj » Mon, Jan 19, 2026, 4:51 PM UTC

Only after voting I understood it was related to duckduckgo....

Re: Are You YES AI or No AI?

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Post by nashashmi » Mon, Jan 19, 2026, 4:51 PM UTC

Can someone clarify this strong position against AI? That it be completely without AI? AI is a great option, but sucks as your only option. I think this true in reverse as well.

Re: Are You YES AI or No AI?

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Post by csande17 » Mon, Jan 19, 2026, 4:51 PM UTC

eleventen wrote: post #2

I love a poll that doesn’t tell me what I’m voting for. I can only assume this is an advertisement stunt and not intended to collect any data?

It's an advertisement for noai.duckduckgo.com, a version of DuckDuckGo that disables the AI features and tries to filter out AI-generated content. (Or, if you choose "yes", it's an advertisement for DuckDuckGo's AI features.)

Re: Are You YES AI or No AI?

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Post by rdiddly » Mon, Jan 19, 2026, 4:52 PM UTC

LOL currently 93% "no."

Re: Are You YES AI or No AI?

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Post by racl101 » Mon, Jan 19, 2026, 4:52 PM UTC

Not sure what these options mean exactly. So for those reasons, I'm out.

-- Barbara

Re: Are You YES AI or No AI?

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Jan 19, 2026, 4:52 PM UTC

armonster wrote: post #3

I think my stance for AI definitely somewhere between these two options. A sentiment I often see is being staunchly anti-AI in any way, and I'm definitely not that. I feel like that is the more useful divide too, anti-AI vs open to AI. Being open to AI doesn't mean being one of those 'full steam ahead' on anything and everything AI though.

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Re: Are You YES AI or No AI?

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Post by nashashmi » Mon, Jan 19, 2026, 4:53 PM UTC

TL;DC: This is an ad for duck, one with AI, and the other without.

Re: Are You YES AI or No AI?

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Post by dpmdpm » Mon, Jan 19, 2026, 4:53 PM UTC

Are you YES sampling bias or NO sampling bias?

Re: Are You YES AI or No AI?

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Post by embedding-shape » Mon, Jan 19, 2026, 4:53 PM UTC

lukev wrote: post #5

What a horribly reductive question. I would hope we can engage these questions with a little subtlety, rather than just "picking a team."

I saw your comment, thought "This person must have not checked the website, can't be just a yes or no question because that'd be so misleading"

Clicks on the page.

[Yes] - [No]

I think it serves as a beautiful visualization of everything that is wrong in the world today. Not because of the question, nor the answers, but because of thinking something like that can just be divided into "Agree" and "Disagree" and somehow think that's a good idea.

Re: Are You YES AI or No AI?

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Post by KPGv2 » Mon, Jan 19, 2026, 4:53 PM UTC

I'm a NO on AI that replaces artists (there's no such thing as "AI art"). I'm a YES on pretty much everything else.