I'm sorry, should we design websites around SEO, or should search engines just use context properly?
While the long-running trend of SEO stuffing from low-value content farms has polluted search results for years now, Google didn't really care about fixing that problem because there's a perverse incentive to generate more ad revenue by making the first page results usesless. Who cares about doing the right thing? Daddy's got to get his quarterly numbers up. I should also note that those content farms were also early adopters of genAI as we know it today.
Infinite growth isn't a thing. Every cancer eventually kills its host.
This is such an echo chamber. Most people love AI. It's one of the fastest growing types of content across all social media.
The news media is telling us we hate it (eg. John Oliver, 404 Media), but this is not the mainstream consensus. Views and likes don't lie.
"Normies" think this technology is magical. Some organs of the traditional news media are trying to skew their opinions.
If you're saying you have relevant stats, then please, share the stats.