If by "poll", you mean advertisement for their search engine, then yes. Yes, they are.
this post was submitted on 21 Jan 2026
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They know we hate AI, yet the AI search is opt-out. Weird.
I gotta wonder how many more times this is going to get posted.
I assume the answer is “yes”
Yes = 7% No = 93%
ehh your picture says Yes = 7% No = 93% lol
oops. ty!
The "noai" image search is returning some AI images.
Are you saying your image search on ddg with noai. price still finds ai generated images? That isn't what the "noai" is meant for, unless I'm misunderstanding you.
It's meant to tell ddg to not put your question or search through an ai that attempts to answer it, like Google and all others are doing now by default, at the top of the page. It can't magically tell if an image that matches your search was made by ai or not, of especially not without using ai for this (ironically).
nope they claim to remove AI results in search. it actually does remove some large ai content farms ime
To be fair it's an extraordinarily difficult game of whack-a-mole.
You want no more AI? Excellent we haven't agreed upon goal, now the problem is that new websites that crank out slop are constantly popping up to proliferate the internet with it. Oh and the slop is getting harder to differentiate as the technology improves because I'm going to be real I've seen some images that I was told by a third party were AI and I just couldn't tell anymore, and sometimes it doesn't come from one of these dedicated slop farm sites.
true, it seems impossible to block tbh. right now some blocklists kinda work, but i don't think it will last for long.
It actually does say "We've Removed AI‑Generated Images" on the landing page of noai.duckduckgo.com
It’s damn near impossible to know an image is ai generated unless the metadata clearly states it, or it comes from a known generation domain.
A human may (or may think they can) be able to determine if something is AI, but it would be impossible to detect everything, even if they went so far as to train an algorithm to do so… which would kinda defeat the purpose.
If that's the case, then I misunderstood the point of the noai image search.
Lol. How is this “poll” not going to be overridden by industry bots?
93% voted no. 4% is the lizardman constant so that leaves 3% done by industry bots.
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