One might accuse me of being intentionally daft, asserting this to be a simple sentiment poll, but I genuinely can't tell. If it were the case, this should ask "do you overall like or dislike generative AI?" Either way this encourages a lack of nuanced thinking on the subject which both tech bro shills and instinctual AI-luddites oft suffer from. The results of this poll are uninterpretable and the effects on the quality of discourse can only be negative.

or add it yourself

  https://noai.duckduckgo.com/?q=%s

Whatever everyone else is doing? NOOOOOO!

What's the harm in having them generated, but you click a button or expand a collapsed div/section/box to see what is if you're interested.

I get the AI-hate but its unreasonable and emotionally charged application is harmful I think.

I wanted to say "lots of people" like AI search results, but it turns out I am lots of people. I have DDG on almost every browser I use, but for a while now, most of my ddg searches include '!g' to go to google for AI results. I don't really want to spend hours trying different things manually, "how do I do X", the AI result quality is objectively good for the things I search for.

Do you want this product to be a niche product used by a small number of people or not? That's the question really. And there is nothing wrong with wanting that so long as DDG can sustain the product that way. No need for "one size fits all".

But if your aim with DDG is to have a viable competitor to mainstream search engines, then opposing AI search results (despite DDG taking pains to make sure they're not intrusive or privacy-hostile) seems counter-productive.

If someone could articulate for me the hatred for AI, even when you're getting good enough results (are people claiming google search AI result are worse than stackoverflow for example?), I'd really appreciate it. Maybe it's a difference in expectations? I don't expect it to solve things for me, just make it easier to do so. "Give me an example in $language of how I can use this package", boom, I have a good valid example. "How do I troubleshoot error <the error>", boom, a list of really good troubleshooting steps. I don't even have to sign-in, or pay anything, why would anyone oppose this? I feel like I should be opposing it but I'm being ignorant on some topic.