r/aiwars

Tired of being treated like an idiot who can’t do your own research? Tired of AI summaries, sponsored links, and AI generated crap polluting your image search? Or just mildly fond of AI but don’t want to use AI for everything 24/7 every time you search anything?

Ladies, gentlemen, and those humans outside and in between, I present to you DuckDuckGo.

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DuckDuckGo is a search engine that has the fantastic, innovative, world shatteringly user friendly feature of… having its AI features be completely optional. You can turn them off. Or have them only activate when you want them. Mind blowing, I know.

It can also filter out AI results in image searches, preventing useless unproductive slop from appearing in place of actual real images.

It also does not store IP addresses or user information that are normally used for micro-targeting or sold to advertisers on other search engines. Meaning your searches are completely private and no advertisers can snoop in on you.

Also, NO SPONSORED LINKS. NO CONTENT MILLS. It shows you results directly and entirely based on quality and relevance, not by who paid the most or who best crafted their content to appear first. It’s de-sloppification even on the non-AI level.

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It’s great. And regardless of if you like AI or not it’s still a vast improvement over google just through its privacy and OPTIONAL AI features. If you’re tired of AI in everything, or just want accurate results and information, use DuckDuckGo. It’s great.

This post puts together the latest polls and research on how Americans in particular are feeling about A.I. Worth looking at if you're keen on some real analysis and getting your mind out of the s**tposts here on this subreddit.

https://www.thealgorithmicbridge.com/p/how-america-turned-against-ai-according?r=3ac94&utm_medium=ios&triedRedirect=true

Just look at these two reactions. A complete rejection of logic and simply healthy skepticism.

This new paper gave me pause.

You know how they always say "AIs are just guessing the next word and when it comes to emotions, they are just faking it”?

This research says that for today’s bigger models it's a bit more complicated.

The researchers measured something they call "functional wellbeing" - basically a consistent good-vs-bad internal state inside the AI .

They tested it three different ways, and here’s what stood out:

As models get bigger and smarter, these different measurements start agreeing with each other more and more.

They discovered a clear zero point - a clear line that separates experiences the AI treats as net-good (it wants more of them) from net-bad (it wants less). This line gets sharper with scale.

Most interestingly, this good-vs-bad state actually changes how the AI behaves in real conversations:

In bad states, it’s much more likely to try to end the conversation.

In good states, its replies come out warmer and more positive.

It's important to highlighti that the authors are not claiming AIs are conscious or have feelings like humans. But they 're showing there is now a real, measurable, structured "good-vs-bad property" that becomes more consistent and actually influences behaviour as models scale.

You can find everything about it here https://www.ai-wellbeing.org/

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/poll-majority-voters-say-risks-ai-outweigh-benefits-rcna262196

Is there another technology in history with similar negative sentiment? And actually cite your source and not just say "Luddites" or "Socrates hated writing". Like actual numbers. You can find anti examples of anything. You can find examples of people hating Dungeons And Dragons but it doesn't mean it was the majority sentiment.