at least with them you can turn it off. its not technically opt-out, but it does ask if you want to change the default before you do anything so its close enough.
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They also have an AI-free version of their search engine:
like its not there at all? might need to switch to that

And you can add that to your browser as the default search engine:

https://noai.duckduckgo.com/?q=%25s
This article has an AI summary on it 🥴
Still has some AI by default.
And will they turn slop off (at least by default) on DDG now? Let me guess.