To be honest, I think most don't know about noai.duckduckgo.com – at least I didn't.

Remember subreddits going dark and people leaving reddit. Hahaha how did that work out ?

We are on lemmy now, so I don't get your point here.

Most people use whatever is the default, even if that default doesn't perfectly is to their needs/wants.

That applies even to people that changed their search engine form Google to Duckduckgo.

Every decisions takes some energy to think about, and the human brain wants to avoid spending energy as much as possible.

That is why LLMs should be opt-in/by-request instead of opt-out. If people want to occasionally use them, they can decide themselves if spending that additional electricity is worth it.

Search engines and LLMs are different things, one is for finding content written by humans, the other is for getting a plausible answer to a inquiry.

I'm not going to use some weird alternative url to remove ai crap, just like I'm not going to append -ai or whatever it was to every google search. I'm just not going to use these services at all. Want me as a user? Remove the AI garbage. It's that simple.

Remember subreddits going dark and people leaving reddit. Hahaha how did that work out ?

Great, we're here. I had to double check i was on the fediverse because of your comment.

It does make a little sense though. Most people won’t really use the feature they just want know they have access.

When choosing a search engine, a “standard” user will just think “this one has AI answers so it must be ‘better’” even if they don’t use AI answers. At this point it’s a marketing trick.

Whoever answered this poll, is already probably not a fan of “AI”

I've been using it. Put it as the default search engine on all my devices, even my work hardware. Before that, I just had the AI features toggled off, but those settings don't stick when clearing all cookies (which I have to do way too often).

I have also left reddit 2 years ago and never visited again. So no idea what your point is?