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"Normal people", as in 99% of people, will not bother editing the URL... most of them don't even know what a URL is. They'll just keep using whatever search window they get in their "internet" (browser).
However, Google would rather scrapers and people with ad blockers not make them waste money on AI when they can't recoup them.
Honestly. People moved to Google back in the day. If a search engine gets enough traction for being superior, the adoption will start. Slowly first, but it worked before. I see no reason why it wouldn't happen again.
AI seems to be the "I don't need to think that much" measure of superiority this year... and sincerely, it's likely here to stay. We will see different AIs with different levels of "no need to think" in different areas, but getting a ready made easy and simple answer, no matter how preposterous, has been the goal for a large part of the population since basically forever.
Disinformation via AI is going to be absurd, especially if Google keeps going down the path of "Here's an AI summary of search results". It's only a matter of time before someone figures out how to manipulate the AI through bad data.
Google has already lost the SEO war and they (supposedly) knew how their algorithms worked. How do they ever expect to control the AI black box?