This article was based off what the CEO said at the Second Annual AI Summit, following the news of their new head of GPU hire who says he “will lead GPU engineering with a focus on AI at Intel”. The AI pivot is the actual news.

I guess it’s some sort of sick performance art by showing that even though the >90% voted no AI, DDG will still have AI turned on by default in its main site and corral the >90% into the hidden away subdomain.

From that article it looks like this is supposed to be a joke and you’re not actually supposed to hold such a position unironically.

Why is it not surprising? Are people with anime profile pics more gullible or ignorant than the average person?