This seems incredibly shortsighted even in their own framing. The SEO spammers who care about being on top of Google the most are the ones generating fake AI websites en masse, so wouldn’t this just cause immediate AI inbreeding?

for about twenty years

This all just makes me miss Jeeves.

How to piss off every artist with a website in a 5 mile radius:

Google is so full of themselves, they don’t even notice how they are slowly replaced by other means of searching. Not long and we’ll say “Google used to be a search engine”

And they JUST lost a law suit for this same exact fucking reason and others. Gotta love capitalism