Google expands Search Generative Experience's testing to include users who didn't opt in to see the experimental feature.
If you're in the US, you might see a new shaded section at the top of your Google Search results with a summary answering your inquiry, along with links for more information. That section, generated by Google's generative AI technology, used to appear only if you've opted into the Search Generative Experience(SGE) in the Search Labs platform. Now, according to Search Engine Land, Google has started adding the experience on a "subset of queries, on a small percentage of search traffic in the US." And that is why you could be getting Google's experimental AI-generated section even if you haven't switched it on.
Normal search results are already littered with useless ai generated seo optimized crap. It's got to the point where sometimes it's quicker to learn the knowledge you seek the old fashion way: by reading books.
I just assume that these people never have any problems that they have to solve personally. Otherwise they would be frustrated by the inability to find necessary information. They are either rich or children or both.