> The site that was hurt by this so-called SEO heist is called Exceljet, a site run by Excel expert David Bruns to help others better use Excel.<p>Welcome to the enshittening. There’s only so much a single dedicated operator can take before they pack it in. We need legislation to catch up fast and some big symbolic restitution cases decided in the courts.
Interesting that the article itself gives AI-generated vibes:<p>>It's important to remember that while Wikipedia is "The Free Encyclopedia that Anyone Can Edit,"
See <a href="https://xkcd.com/978/" rel="nofollow">https://xkcd.com/978/</a> (Citogenesis) for what I think is the biggest problem with a source that publishes AI-generated articles.<p>Wikipedia is supposed to use primary sources, AI generated articles, by nature, can't be primary sources. In particular, AIs love to use Wikipedia in their training dataset: it is a free, high quality source of information, but it is not flawless either. So there is a good chance that if Wikipedia cites an AI generated article, it has Wikipedia as its source, starting the "citogenesis" process.
It'll be interesting if AI-generated content is ever no longer distinguishable from human writing in both evidence and prose. I suppose that's the ultimate goal.<p>The final hurdle at that point will be the de-democratization of writing and the dilution of creativity and novel writing. There will probably always be a market for that, but for things like reporting events, it seems like AI could easily overtake the industry.