Which seems fair. I do not want to be bombarded by AI generated media and content that can be created at infinite volume and speed. Google is taking a massive step here for the good.

I mean, I don’t know about you, but I’d be fine with an infinite stream of AI generated media… once it’s no worse than human-authored content. Which is where Google is setting the bar. If the AI can generate articles that are as good as the ones humans are writing, why not index those?

Of course, this suggests a corollary: that Google shouldn’t be indexing the output of content farms where the writing and derivative-ness is strictly worse than what you’d get from an AI article generator. :)

Most blogspam written by humans is garbage, why not set the bar higher?

I've seen a few AI generated pages in top results that felt like having a stroke trying to read. I hope these can be eliminated.

What about high quality ai content? What if someday the content generated by ai is actually more useful/higher quality than the human generated content we just shoot outself in the foot because it's ai generated. Seems discriminatory to me!

Then someday Google can change its policy again.

... Let's start with some demonstrations of good AI-generated content being down-sampled by this policy.

> What if someday the content generated by ai is actually more useful/higher quality than the human generated content

Mission. Fucking. Accomplished.

https://xkcd.com/810/

In the future, "search" engines will generate the content for you on the fly. No need to index anything.