@bremner oh yeah, the SEO spam apocalypse got serious around 2020, when the main new thing for luddites to be angry about was still crypto.
AI was more of an attempted solution to this problem, via summaries making it that you don't have to sift through garbage to get a simple answer to your simple question, not its cause.
Now it's more of an arms race between whether AI SEO spam can beat AI summaries. This is not how I imagined the first AI wars would go, but it could've been worse lol