it really is miserable knowing that this makes duckduckgo one of the only search engines that has an opt-in for generative ai rather than an opt-out. this could have (and should have) been made into the default experience for everyone using this search engine.

don't get me wrong, it's great that this is a thing... but this has me worried that duckduckgo won't do more than this to address the problems with an opt-out system.

hopefully, this becomes popular enough that it sends a clear message to duckduckgo and other search engines. i know i don't want to deal with this opt-out nonsense, where it feels like i'm being cuffed to something only to be given the key to free myself whenever i want.

Not working at all. Searching ''art'' and It keeps showing me AI-generated images...

Most sensible search engine company on the planet.

Really glad I can make noai my default search now!!! I do wish there was more it could do to scrub AI generated images from search results, but that's not duckduckgo's problem, the whole internet is poisoned with AI slop now.

Still a ways to go, but a very good start.
I still see quite a lot of obvious ai art when I search for images to use in my dnd campaign, but if we keep reporting them as AI then hopefully soon we can get rid of most

first impression not good - searched for "anime" once and immediately ai pictures came up, even with "hide" on.

About damn time. If there's a 50/50 chance of being incredibly wrong, then I don't want the AI answer! Give me the ACTUAL results. Not some half-hallucinated summary from a LLM.