While this is factual information (note: it’s actually rather hard to find the most up to date details about this) and so slightly harder to write in any other way, it raises another important issue: For what purpose are these explainers being written?

What business case is there to flood Google with new explainers when that information already exists, except to try and boost your website’s ranking? And if you’re trying to boost your website’s ranking with AI-generated content… let me tell you, you’re already tackling the problem the entirely wrong way.

An Australian Science Journalism Outlet Started Publishing AI-generated Articles — You Won’t Believe What Happened Next