When SEO people began engineering their Google result's page excerpt to cut off one word before the answer, I would deliberately click on a site whose summary contained the answer, just to signal that I preferred that result, even though I didn't need to anymore.

Personally, when Google tries to give me AI results, I close the browser and do something else.

The search results were bad enough, and now it's ai slop. I can just make shit up myself, and save everybody time.

Agreed. Also for an AI answer I use the model of my choice.